[Rd] symbol ¢ that stands for "cents" crashes R (PR#1444)

[hammour@msn.com]

Full_Name: Ahmad Abu Hammour
Version: 1.4.1
OS: windows 98
Submission from: (NULL) (206.216.65.147)


I wanted to make a plot with axis y labeled as "Exchange Rate (in US ¢)". Just
as follows:

plot(ts(data0$uscrx,start=c(1975,1),freq=4),plot.type="single",
 ylab="Exchange Rate (US¢)",main="(e) Canada-US Dollar Exchange Rate")

R stops after the word "US" and the following error message appears:

"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

RGUI caused an invalid page fault in
module MSVCRT.DLL at 0167:7801447b.
Registers:
EAX=0091007a CS=0167 EIP=7801447b EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00e23e5e SS=016f ESP=008ff7ac EBP=008ff808
ECX=ffffffa2 DS=016f ESI=00e22188 FS=18cf
EDX=8160b024 ES=016f EDI=008ff7f8 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 04 48 25 57 01 00 00 c3 e8 82 ce fe ff 8b 
Stack dump:
0041358c ffffffa2 00000010 008ff808 0041356e 00e45b0c 00e45b0c 02000ec0 008ff7ec
00e70d80 00e75b70 008ff8c8 004afb42 00e73dd0 00e73dd0 008ff818"

If the symbol replaced by the word "cents", the plot executed without any
hassle.

Regards

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