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Message-ID: <59d2cd8a-ed4f-5db4-7464-bce105b0bf40@effectivedefense.org>
Date: 2018-01-06T04:31:27Z
From: Spencer Graves
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Producing ß in help files.
In-Reply-To: <cd421da3-32dd-48df-dc0d-5037810f98fc@auckland.ac.nz>

On 2018-01-05 21:41, Rolf Turner wrote:
> On 06/01/18 16:19, Spencer Graves wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2018-01-05 20:52, Rolf Turner wrote:
>>>
>>> In a help file that I am writing I wish to cite an item by a bloke 
>>> whose surname is Wei?.
>>
>>
>> ?????? Write it "Weiss".
>>
>>
>> ?????? See "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F".
>>
>>
>> ?????? That name is written "Weiss" in Switzerland and Liechtenstein 
>> but "Wei?" in Germany and Austria.? German is the official language 
>> of Liechtenstein and the primary of four official languages of 
>> Switzerland.
>>
>>
>> ?????? Standard high German has several characters that are not used 
>> in English but have standard transliterations using the English latin 
>> alphabet.? These include "?" = "ss", "?" = "ae", "?" = "oe" and "?" = 
>> "ue".
>
> <SNIP>
>
> I'm sure that you're correct, but I find it frustrating not to be able 
> to produce a symbol (which is readily available elsewhere --- e.g. in 
> LaTeX or from the keyboard using the "compose key") under the ".Rd" 
> system.? I'd like to be *able to produce it*, even if I shouldn't! :-)
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf
>
> P. S.? It also seems to me to be polite --- if that's the way the 
> bloke writes his name, then? that's the way that I ought to write it 
> when referring to him.


 ????? Agreed -- except that people who have not studied German would 
not recognize "?" as sounding like "ss":? They might want to pronounce 
it "Weib" -- old German for "woman", though transliterated as "wife" -- 
very different from "Wei?" = "White".


 ????? "Solzhenitsyn" is the English and Spanish transliteration of a 
name that appears in German as "Solschenizyn", French as "Soljenitsyne", 
and Russian as "??????????", according to Wikipedia 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn).


 ????? Hope this helps.
 ????? spencer

>
> R.
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