Re: Help needed with latex/R doc font issue

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Given that stabilized utf8 support is quite young in TeX, I wouldn't say
> the same. In any case latin1 is upstream choice, in that case. So it
> is expected to have to do something for the encoding. My opinion is that
> it is better to leave the document as-is and set the editor encoding,
> but if the packager wants to convert the document and modify the commands
> related with encoding such that the document is still valid, why not.

It's pretty easy to fix in the specfile: just recode the file and sed the
inputenc definition. I don't really see this as a valid excuse to ignore
our packaging guidelines there.

        Kevin Kofler