Help needed with latex/R doc font issue

[Ben Boeckel]

Patrice Dumas wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:40:31AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 08:54:35AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Don't fix it, it is a false alarm.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Pat
>>>
>>
>> It's not a false alarm:
>>
>> W. Krämer \& H. Sonnberger (1986),
>>
>> It has a latin1 (ISO-8859-1) character in it.
> 
> The rpmlint is a flase alarm. It is not wrong to have a latin1 file
> when the encoding is described in the file itself.
> 
> --
> Pat
> 

Shouldn't that be \"a since it's a TeX file? TeX tends to not like non-ASCII 
and outputs ? in its place.

--Ben