[ESS] German umlaute in ESS, Emacs & R

[enno_sandkasten at arcor.de]

Hi list,

I use GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-03-26 on Windows XP and ESS Version 5.3.7, both downloaded from http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/, and R version 2.7.1 for Windows.

My problem is that Emacs cannot handle german umlaute as R variable names:

> ä <- 3
Error: unexpected input in "\201"

This does not occur in RGui.exe. I think this is more an emacs than ess problem, but maybe there are any suggestions.

Thanks, Sven