[R] Sweave and accented letters

[Giuseppe]

That is exactly what I thought I would do. But the problem persist.

In the document below I have added  "\inputencoding utf8", yet LyX
fails to compile.


#LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 413
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass article
\use_default_options true
\begin_modules
sweave
\end_modules
\maintain_unincluded_children false
\language english
\language_package default
\inputencoding utf8
\fontencoding global
\font_roman default
\font_sans default
\font_typewriter default
\font_default_family default
\use_non_tex_fonts false
\font_sc false
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100

\graphics default
\default_output_format default
\output_sync 0
\bibtex_command default
\index_command default
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single
\use_hyperref false
\papersize default
\use_geometry false
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 1
\use_mhchem 1
\use_mathdots 1
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\use_indices false
\paperorientation portrait
\suppress_date false
\use_refstyle 1
\index Index
\shortcut idx
\color #008000
\end_index
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\paragraph_indentation default
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\html_math_output 0
\html_css_as_file 0
\html_be_strict false
\end_header

\begin_body

\begin_layout Standard
è
\end_layout

\end_body
\end_document




On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
> It might be better to post it to the LyX mailing list
> (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org) since you are using LyX. Anyway, the problem
> came from Sweave: you did not tell us your R version, and I suppose
> you are using the latest version of R (2.14.0). There are two ways of
> telling Sweave your UTF8 encoding (see ?Sweave); one of them is via
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}. In LyX, you need to set the document
> encoding to "Unicode (utf8)" in Document
> Settings-->Language-->Encoding. The next version of LyX (2.0.2) will
> address this issue better.
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
> --
> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Giuseppe <neox86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I often use Lyx/Sweave and I typically write in english.
>>
>> Today I had to write a document in Italian and, as many of you know,
>> many italian popular words use è, ù, é. ò, etc.
>>
>> I discovered that if I type in Italian (that is there is at least one
>> letter with accent)  with the Sweave module selected lye is not able
>> to correctly compile the document.
>>
>> I tried to change the input encoding, but it still does not work. I am
>> attaching a basic lye file that illustrates the problem.
>>
>>
>> ========= Lyx File
>>
>>
>> #LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
>> \lyxformat 413
>> \begin_document
>> \begin_header
>> \textclass article
>> \use_default_options true
>> \begin_modules
>> sweave
>> \end_modules
>> \maintain_unincluded_children false
>> \language english
>> \language_package default
>> \inputencoding utf8-plain
>> \fontencoding global
>> \font_roman default
>> \font_sans default
>> \font_typewriter default
>> \font_default_family default
>> \use_non_tex_fonts false
>> \font_sc false
>> \font_osf false
>> \font_sf_scale 100
>> \font_tt_scale 100
>>
>> \graphics default
>> \default_output_format default
>> \output_sync 0
>> \bibtex_command default
>> \index_command default
>> \paperfontsize default
>> \spacing single
>> \use_hyperref false
>> \papersize default
>> \use_geometry false
>> \use_amsmath 1
>> \use_esint 1
>> \use_mhchem 1
>> \use_mathdots 1
>> \cite_engine basic
>> \use_bibtopic false
>> \use_indices false
>> \paperorientation portrait
>> \suppress_date false
>> \use_refstyle 1
>> \index Index
>> \shortcut idx
>> \color #008000
>> \end_index
>> \secnumdepth 3
>> \tocdepth 3
>> \paragraph_separation indent
>> \paragraph_indentation default
>> \quotes_language english
>> \papercolumns 1
>> \papersides 1
>> \paperpagestyle default
>> \tracking_changes false
>> \output_changes false
>> \html_math_output 0
>> \html_css_as_file 0
>> \html_be_strict false
>> \end_header
>>
>> \begin_body
>>
>> \begin_layout Standard
>> Antoine è bella.
>> \end_layout
>>
>> \end_body
>> \end_document
>>
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