[ESS] Fwd: Special characters in graphic interface

Thu Feb 23 11:03:15 CET 2006

Argh.  Not a good solution.  Looks like we've got another bug to fix.

On 2/23/06, François MICHONNEAU <francois.michonneau at gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: François MICHONNEAU <francois.michonneau at gmail.com>
> Date: 23 févr. 2006 09:56
> Subject: Re: [ESS] Fwd: Special characters in graphic interface
> To: Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> You were right in your last message. I tried with XEmacs instead of
> GNU Emacs, and effectively the problem disapear.
> Thanks for your help
>
> François
>
>
>
> > Not ESS, but Emacs might be mangling the character coding (and might
> > be interacting in a nasty way with R, depending on R's version).
>
> > So yes, "they are just passed to R", but character coding can get in
> > the way if they don't "pass things right" (even or especially "ASCII
> >text", which is not really ASCII anymore, presents encoding issues).
>
>
>
> >2006/2/22, François MICHONNEAU <francois.michonneau at gmail.com>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I upgraded to 5.2.12 but the problem remains...
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help
> >>
> >> François
> >>
> >> Martin Maechler a écrit :
> >>
> >> >Can you upgrade to ESS 5.2.12 and try again ?
> >> >
> >> >5.2.8 is not old, but we did fix and tweak quite a few things
> >> >since then, so there's a small chance that your problem will go
> >> >away when you the current version of ESS
> >> >
> >> >Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
>
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