[Rd] use of UTF-8 \uxxxx escape sequences in function arguments

[peter dalgaard]

On Jan 18, 2012, at 23:54 , Thomas Zumbrunn wrote:

>   plain("Zürich")  ## works
>   plain("Z\u00BCrich")  ## fails
>   escaped("Zürich")  ## fails
>   escaped("Z\u00BCrich")  ## works

Using the correct UTF-8 code helps quite a bit:

U+00BC	¼	c2 bc	VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
U+00FC	ü	c3 bc	LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS

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