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...for R packages, but sometimes they cannot be avoided. To make packages portable and build without 'R CMD check' warnings, my solution has been to convert problematic characters in functions and datasets to escaped ASCII, so plot(1,main="S?o Paulo") becomes plot(1,main="S\u00e3o Paulo"). The showNonASCII() function in package:tools is helpful to identify R source files where characters should be converted to ASCII one way or another, but I could not find a function to actually perform the conversion to ASCII. I have written the function ASCIIfy() to convert chara...