I have posted this question first to r-h...@r-project.org and Bert Gunter informs me that it was better for this discussion list that I didn't know.
Hello everyone, I am a little bit stucked on the problem to include a database with utf-8 string in a package. When I submit it to CRAN, it reports NOTES for several Unix system and I try to find a solution (if it exists) to not have these NOTES. The database has references and some names have non ASCII characters. * First I don't agree at all with the solution proposed here: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Encoding-issues "First, consider carefully if you really need non-ASCIItext." If a language has non ASCII characters, it is not just to make the writting nicer of more complex, it is because it changes the prononciation. * Then I try to find solution to not have these NOTES. For example, here is a reference with utf-8 characters > DatabaseTSD$Reference[211] [1] Hernández-Montoya, V., Páez, V.P. & Ceballos, C.P. (2017) Effects of temperature on sex determination and embryonic development in the red-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis carbonarius. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 16, 164-171. When I convert the characters into unicode, I get indeed only ASCII characters. Perfect. > iconv(DatabaseTSD$Reference[211], "UTF-8", "ASCII", "Unicode") [1] "Hern<U+00E1>ndez-Montoya, V., P<U+00E1>ez, V.P. & Ceballos, C.P. (2017) Effects of temperature on sex determination and embryonic development in the red-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis carbonarius. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 16, 164-171." Then I have no NOTES when I checked the package with database in UNIX... but how can I print the reference back with original characters ? Thanks a lot to point me to best practices to include databases with non-ASCII characters and not have NOTES while submitted package to CRAN. Marc [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
