A partial work-around is to change windows language to English, after which R does not try to display accent marks (but still hangs if you type é in the *R* buffer). This seems to be an issue only on windows, as I can not reproduce them on linux/ubuntu.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 11:54 AM Toby Hocking <tdho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi, I am installing ESS on a new work computer, which is in Quebec > (French speaking province of Canada). > I am having issues with display and entry of accent marks, for example > e with accent aigu é > For example when R starts up I see é instead of é > > Copyright (C) 2024 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 > > R est un logiciel libre livré sans AUCUNE GARANTIE. > Vous pouvez le redistribuer sous certaines conditions. > Tapez 'license()' ou 'licence()' pour plus de détails. > > R est un projet collaboratif avec de nombreux contributeurs. > Tapez 'contributors()' pour plus d'information et > 'citation()' pour la façon de le citer dans les publications. > > Tapez 'demo()' pour des démonstrations, 'help()' pour l'aide > en ligne ou 'help.start()' pour obtenir l'aide au format HTML. > Tapez 'q()' pour quitter R. > > Do I need to tell emacs to use a particular character encoding for the > ESS buffer? How? > I expected this should "just work" (display the right character é) > > More problematic, when I try to enter é in the *R* buffer, it > freezes/hangs the whole emacs window. C-g does not help/cancel, only > way to get out is to tell windows to kill emacs. > > Any ideas? > > Below is the environment from my eshell, if that helps. > Thanks in advance! > Toby > > c:/Program Files/Emacs/emacs-29.4/bin $ env > ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData > APPDATA=C:\Users\hoct2726\AppData\Roaming > COLUMNS=80 > COMPUTERNAME=DINF-THOCK-01A > COMSPEC=C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe > CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files > CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files > CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files > DEFLOGDIR=C:\ProgramData\McAfee\Endpoint Security\Logs > DriverData=C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\DriverData > EFC_13380=1 > HOME=C:\Users\hoct2726 > HOMEDRIVE=C: > HOMEPATH=\Users\hoct2726 > INSIDE_EMACS=29.4,eshell > LINES=58 > LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\hoct2726\AppData\Local > LOG4J_FORMAT_MSG_NO_LOOKUPS=true > LOGONSERVER=\\SAD > NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=6 > OLDPWD= > OS=Windows_NT > OneDrive=C:\Users\hoct2726\OneDrive > PATH=c:/windows/system32;C:/windows;C:/windows/System32/Wbem;C:/windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/;C:/windows/System32/OpenSSH/;C:/Program > Files/Git/cmd;C:/Program > Files/R/R-4.4.1/bin/x64;C:/Users/hoct2726/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps;. > PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC > PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64 > PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel > PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6 > PROCESSOR_REVISION=9e0a > PSModulePath=C:\Program > Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules > PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public > PWD=c:/Program Files/Emacs/emacs-29.4/bin > ProgramData=C:\ProgramData > ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86) > ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files > ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files > RTOOLS44_HOME=C:\rtools44 > SESSIONNAME=Console > SystemDrive=C: > SystemRoot=C:\windows > TEMP=C:\Users\hoct2726\AppData\Local\Temp > TERM=dumb > TMP=C:\Users\hoct2726\AppData\Local\Temp > USERDNSDOMAIN=USHERBROOKE.CA > USERDOMAIN=USHERBROOKE > USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE=USHERBROOKE > USERNAME=hoct2726 > USERPROFILE=C:\Users\hoct2726 > WSUSUpgVer=11 > WSUStarget=FSCI;DInf > ZES_ENABLE_SYSMAN=1 > windir=C:\windows ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
