Re: [R-pkg-devel] Unicode Name Warnings for Package Constant

2021-09-02 Thread Tomas Kalibera
In the current R releases, R symbol names are in the native encoding, which on Windows in R (the normal MSVCRT builds up to R 4.1) cannot be UTF-8 nor any other Unicode encoding. So you can't portably use such characters e.g. in names of vector elements or of bindings in an environment, so not

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Unicode Name Warnings for Package Constant

2021-09-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 02/09/2021 11:24 a.m., b...@denney.ws wrote: Hello, In the janitor package, we want to optionally support conversion from Unicode characters that visually map to mu or micro to the character "u". For that, we were thinking to create an unexported character vector constant with names of a

[R-pkg-devel] Unicode Name Warnings for Package Constant

2021-09-02 Thread bill
Hello, In the janitor package, we want to optionally support conversion from Unicode characters that visually map to mu or micro to the character "u". For that, we were thinking to create an unexported character vector constant with names of all the Unicode mu/micro characters and values of "u"