[R] demo() output looks garbled in default pager (less and most)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You are almost certainly using a UTF-8 locale and have the character set 
for less and/or your terminal set incorrectly.  This works exactly as 
intended on a properly configured Linux system in single-byte and UTF-8 
locales.

This would be quite inappropriate as a bug report on R.

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Ivailo Stoyanov wrote:

> Dear Rexperts,
>
> I have recently build R-2.3.0 from source on a Linux system and have
> encountered the following problem (perhaps not exactly a problem, but a
> minor display flaw):
>
> > demo()
> +------------here is how the output looks in less------------+
> Demos in package <E2><80><98>base<E2><80><99>:

Those are UTF-8 byte sequences for left- and right- single quotes.

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