On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:19:23 -0500 Paul Flo Williams <flo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/01/2011 03:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:13:35 -0500 Paul Flo Williams > > > >> The font issue (seeing<80><98>lm<80><99>) is actually an encoding > >> issue in the man page you're looking at. It appears that the document > >> is using Windows curly quotes, which are not at their standard Unicode > >> positions. This would be a bug in the package that supplies that man page. > > > > Possible. But many of these webpages have not changed. Is it possible > > that previously, I this was not an issue because I was using the > > Microsoft TrueType Fonts, rather than Liberation now? > > Hmm, I got this bit wrong. Having checked the help page in question, I > can see that, on my box, the rendered help page (produced from HTML > source) seems to have the bytes: > > E2 80 98 l m E2 80 99 > > which is the UTF-8 encoding for U+2018 lm U+2019, so ignore what I said > about Windows encodings. > > If there was a locale discrepancy between R and your terminal, I'd > expect to see <e2><80><98>lm<e2><80><99> on the display, but your > display misses the <e2>, which leaves me more confused. > > That *still* means it shouldn't have anything to do with your > particular font. > > What locale are you using? I am sorry that I am a little lost here, but how do I figure this out? Or change the locale, if needed? Many thanks again(!!) and best wishes, Ranjan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
