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2014 Dec 12
2
SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding when parse():ing code?
...and that people may want umlauted characters in their variable names, but where this catches on, it's just a matter of time that people get characters into their code that are different but indistinguishable in the font they use (I've seen this with \H{o} rather than a \"{o}), and mega-personmonths are wasted puzzling over tracking down these problems. While many packages are used in-house at least initially, making a package is a step towards releasing it, so I'd anticipate that having an option to support weeding out any potentially troublesome identifiers has the potential to do some...
2014 Dec 12
5
SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding when parse():ing code?
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> writes: > users of other languages may want to have messages and variable names > in their native language, and ASCII might not be enough for that. Allowing for messages in non-ASCII encodings would probably be a good idea, but I think allowing non-ASCII variable names is dangerous. -- Regards, Bj?rn-Helge Mevik
2014 Dec 12
0
SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding when parse():ing code?
...n Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Jan Kim <jttkim at googlemail.com> wrote: > it's just a matter of time that people get characters into their code that > are different but indistinguishable in the font they use (I've seen this > with \H{o} rather than a \"{o}), and mega-personmonths are wasted puzzling > over tracking down these problems. Then R should ban variable names from having 'l', 'i', '1', '0' and 'O' in them! Barry