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.
>