On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 09:05:54 +0000 David Norris <da...@precisionmethods.guru> wrote:
> Unicode U+00d7 (times), U+00b1 (plus-minus) and U+03bc (mu) have > equivalents in Latin-1 encoding, and I have used these without > difficulty in strings, neither U+2206 (INCREMENT) nor U+0394 (Greek > Delta) does But not in some other locale encodings on Windows (e.g. CP-1251), nor in some single-byte locale encodings on *nix-like systems (e.g. ru_RU.KOI8-R), which are admittedly used much rarer nowadays than on Windows. Unless I'm mistaken, the "\u2206t" in your example needs to become a symbol, and symbols are always translated into the locale encoding [1] [2]. I would expect this warning to be a problem for CRAN, but I'm just another package developer, so I could be wrong. -- Best regards, Ivan [1] https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/blob/9b13376f5e630f584a68d3815da004dc79c059a3/src/main/sysutils.c#L1046-L1052 [2] https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/blob/9b13376f5e630f584a68d3815da004dc79c059a3/src/main/sysutils.c#L842 ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
