Help needed with latex/R doc font issue

Ben Boeckel MathStuf at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 05:11:22 UTC 2009


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Patrice Dumas wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 07:15:06PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Le vendredi 20 février 2009 à 18:13 +0100, Patrice Dumas a écrit :
>> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:40:31AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> > > It has a latin1 (ISO-8859-1) character in it.
>> > 
>> > The rpmlint is a flase alarm. It is not wrong to have a latin1 file
>> > when the encoding is described in the file itself.
>> 
>> It's not a false alarm. A latin1-encoded file will confuse all the text
>> editors which have not got special magic to parse the encoding
>> definition.
> 
> In all those cases, the encoding is available at the beginning of the
> document, in an ascii section, so it is possible to start the editor
> with the right encoding, or set the encoding to the one that is right.
> 
> --
> Pat
> 

IMO, since this is a TeX file, there is no reason to keep any non-ASCII 
characters (unless nearly everything would end up in command form, such as 
non-latin based languages). Editors in *nix land assume UTF-8 (or subsets 
of). There are editors that infer the encoding, but I don't think they're 
among the norm yet. Manually changing for a TeX file would be highly 
unexpected.

- --Ben
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