R devel - Oct 2009 - quoted strings in foo.Rd rendered as â

Another anomaly from our rhel5 system, again sessionInfo() below.
When I'm logged in remotely via ssh from my macpro and view  
documentation
files in my X11 window,  strings in single quotes in the files are all
abbreviated as ? .   The same files appear fine when rendered in X11
using the local R,  and also appear fine in a terminal window on the
linux machine, so this could easily also be some sort of ssh/X11 issue
not R at all, but if someone had any suggestion for further checking
it would be greatly appreciated.

Roger

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-09 r50012)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
[1] survival_2.35-7 quantreg_4.42   SparseM_0.80

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.0


url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
fax:       217-244-6678                Urbana, IL 61801

First step to check: update to a released version of R 2.10.0!

If that does not help, using options(useFancyQuotes = TRUE) in the 
released version should (but possibly not as far back as your alpha 
pre-release).

I suspect that whatever you mean my 'my X11 window' (it is the 
application running in the window that matters, perhaps an xterm?) it 
is set to the wrong character set.  I simply use a Mac terminal 
window, and that ought to default to UTF-8 (but it can be changed, so 
check if you try one).

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Roger Koenker wrote:
> Another anomaly from our rhel5 system, again sessionInfo() below.
> When I'm logged in remotely via ssh from my macpro and view
documentation
> files in my X11 window,  strings in single quotes in the files are all
> abbreviated as ? .   The same files appear fine when rendered in X11
> using the local R,  and also appear fine in a terminal window on the
> linux machine, so this could easily also be some sort of ssh/X11 issue
> not R at all, but if someone had any suggestion for further checking
> it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Roger
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-09 r50012)
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> [8] base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] survival_2.35-7 quantreg_4.42   SparseM_0.80
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.10.0
>
>
> url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
> email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
> vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
> fax:       217-244-6678                Urbana, IL 61801
>
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