On 14/11/2012 15:24, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 14/11/2012 9:22 AM, Denis Talbot wrote:
Dear list,
I am writing an R package manual and there is still a warning when I
run "R
CMD check" about "NON-ASCII contents without declared encoding". I do get
the warning comes from an accent in the name of one of the author
(Geneviève), but I can't find what I am supposed to do about it. I know
there is a section about encoding in the "Writing R extension" manual,
but
I couldn't understand what I should do from reading it.
Any help is welcomed.
You need to declare what encoding you are using. Put a line in your
DESCRIPTION file like
Encoding: utf-8
If you don't know what encoding you are using, you can probably find out
by reading the docs for your text editor, or just guess: If you are on
Windows it is likely latin1, on Linux it is likely utf-8. If you guess
wrong you'll get errors or ugly text when R produces the manual.
But note the manual says
'Only encoding names latin1, latin2 and UTF-8 are known to be portable.'
'utf-8' is never correct and may or may not be accepted.
The error message 'Non-ASCII contents without declared encoding' (sic)
occurs in processing Rd files. So you would probably do better to add a
\encoding{} line to the Rd file where the name occurs. There are many
examples in the R sources, e.g. src/library/graphics/man/text.Rd .
Duncan Murdoch
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