Help needed with latex/R doc font issue

[Orion Poplawski]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:18:33PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> I'm trying to update R-lmtest to the latest release, but am having  
>> trouble during the documentation build step:
>>
>> Now, the shipped docs are in ISO-8599 encoding, so I convert the to  
>> UTF-8 with:
>>
>> for x in lmtest/man/*.Rd
>> do
>>    iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < ${x} | tr -d '\r' > ${x}.utf-8
>>    touch -r ${x} ${x}.utf-8
>>    mv ${x}.utf-8 ${x}
>> done
>>
>> This worked fine the last time I built the package (2008-06-25 for F-10).
> 
> I think that you should not do that. The encoding is specified in the 
> file when needed, so you should not change the encoding. You can change
> the encoding and also the command that sets it, but I think this is 
> not needed, and complicates matter for no gain.

So how do I fix:

R-lmtest.i386: W: file-not-utf8 
/usr/lib/R/library/lmtest/latex/valueofstocks.tex

Fedora guidelines require UTF-8 files.

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