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Lots of European authors have Unicode characters in their names such as Å, Æ, ø and Ä. How can they have their actual name with these Unicode characters rather than some transformed version of the English alphabet (Å -> A, Æ -> A, Ä -> A) when creating R-package. In short, how can I use Unicode characters in author/creator/maintainer name when creating an R-Package.

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  • Are you sure you can't use it? It seems to me that it is possible: for exemple [that package](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lxb/) use ö – YCR Jun 27 '17 at 08:40
  • You can just use unicode equaivalents. For example: The string "verf\u00FCgbar" will be outputted as "verfügbar" in man pages. – Gregor de Cillia Jun 27 '17 at 08:50
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    @YCR: The package you have referred me has used those character but when I use them and check it for CRAN, it gives me warning of Non-ASCII character in Authors@R @Gregor: I am using roxygen2 where the `@author` field has these Unicode characters. When I use \u00FC, I get the warning unknown macro. – TheRimalaya Jun 27 '17 at 10:22

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There is some note here: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/check.html

I quote:

If you use any non-ASCII characters in the DESCRIPTION, you must also specify an encoding. There are only three encodings that work on all platforms: latin1, latin2 and UTF-8. I strongly recommend UTF-8: Encoding: UTF-8

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