On 12/12/2014, 4:12 AM, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: > Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> writes: > >> users of other languages may want to have messages and variable names >> in their native language, and ASCII might not be enough for that. > > Allowing for messages in non-ASCII encodings would probably be a good > idea, but I think allowing non-ASCII variable names is dangerous.
Dangerous in what way? I agree that CRAN probably shouldn't accept packages like that, at least for exported symbols: packages there should run anywhere. But I suspect that the majority of R packages are for private use, and will never be sent to CRAN. Do you know any reason that non-ASCII names would be dangerous for those? Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
