Re: [R-pkg-devel] Intrinsic UTF-8 use in aspired CRAN package

2023-05-20 Thread Schuhmacher, Dominic
In case more people want to check this out, the minimal example package can be downloaded from https://owncloud.gwdg.de/index.php/s/ejhN3vd51572e27 Saying (in an UTF-8 locale) R CMD check minimal_1.0.tar.gz reproduces the described problem, whereas PDFLATEX=lualatex \ RD2PDF_INPUTENC='inputenc

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Intrinsic UTF-8 use in aspired CRAN package

2023-05-19 Thread Schuhmacher, Dominic
Thanks again! I see now that having Japanese characters in the pdf help is much more difficult to put into practice than I thought. I can imagine that it is not desirable for CRAN package checks if packages try to set all sorts of environment variables that make them perform in unpredictable wa

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Intrinsic UTF-8 use in aspired CRAN package

2023-05-19 Thread Ivan Krylov
В Thu, 18 May 2023 12:48:01 + "Schuhmacher, Dominic" пишет: > By the way, what is the recommended way of setting environment > variables like PDFLATEX and (possibly) RD2PDF_INPUTENC in a package > (if this is something that is allowed on CRAN)? I don't think there is a supported way of doin

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Intrinsic UTF-8 use in aspired CRAN package

2023-05-18 Thread Schuhmacher, Dominic
Hi Ivan, Thanks for the extensive answer. Both PDFLATEX=xelatex R CMD Rd2pdf . and PDFLATEX=lualatex R CMD Rd2pdf . work for me (for the whole package doc). And yes, in both cases I need to inject code in the preamble of the .tex file. In fact for lualatex (which I prefer from my experience with

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Intrinsic UTF-8 use in aspired CRAN package

2023-05-18 Thread Ivan Krylov
В Wed, 17 May 2023 12:05:49 + "Schuhmacher, Dominic" пишет: > checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING > LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. > This typically indicates Rd problems. > LaTeX errors found: > ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode character 冷 (U+51B7) > (inputenc) not set up for

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Intrinsic UTF-8 use in aspired CRAN package

2023-05-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 18.05.2023 10:03, Martin Maechler wrote: Schuhmacher, Dominic on Wed, 17 May 2023 12:05:49 + writes: > Dear list, I have a package > https://github.com/dschuhmacher/kanjistat whose very > purpose depends on working with Japanese kanji characters > (in UTF-8 en

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Intrinsic UTF-8 use in aspired CRAN package

2023-05-18 Thread Martin Maechler
> Schuhmacher, Dominic > on Wed, 17 May 2023 12:05:49 + writes: > Dear list, I have a package > https://github.com/dschuhmacher/kanjistat whose very > purpose depends on working with Japanese kanji characters > (in UTF-8 encoding). Such characters appear vitally in