flip defailt for reporting marked character strings

git-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk@87261 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41

Author: ripley

doc/NEWS.Rd

@@ -267,6 +267,12 @@
       \command{gfortran -Wall}.  For hints on how to modernize these,
       see
       \url{https://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Modernizing+Old+Fortran}.
+
+      \item Since all supported \R versions now use UTF-8, \command{R CMD
+	check} no longer by default reports on marked strings in
+      character data.  Set environment variable
+      \env{_R_CHECK_PACKAGE_DATASETS_SUPPRESS_NOTES_}
+      to a false value for the previous behaviour.
     }
   }
 

doc/manual/R-ints.texi

@@ -4514,6 +4514,13 @@ Default: unset (but true for CRAN submission checks).
 If set to a true value, check whether Rd cross-references to targets not
 in the package itself or the base packages have package anchors.
 Default: false (but true for CRAN submission checks).
+
+@item _R_CHECK_PACKAGE_DATASETS_SUPPRESS_NOTES_
+If false report the use of non-ASCII
+strings marked as UTF-8, Latin-1 or @code{"bytes"} as part of
+@samp{checking data for non-ASCII characters}. Non-ASCII strings of
+unknown encoding are always reported.
+Default: true, but false prior on @R{} 4.5.0.
 @end vtable
 
 The following variables control checks for undeclared/unconditional use

src/library/tools/R/QC.R

@@ -4969,7 +4969,7 @@ function(x, ...)
 
     suppress_notes <-
         config_val_to_logical(Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK_PACKAGE_DATASETS_SUPPRESS_NOTES_",
-                                         "FALSE"))
+                                         "TRUE"))
 
     c(character(),
       if((n <- x$latin1) && !suppress_notes) {
@@ -7952,7 +7952,7 @@ function(dir, localOnly = FALSE, pkgSize = NA)
                       collapse = "\n")
         }
     }
-    
+
     skip_dates <-
         config_val_to_logical(Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_SKIP_DATES_",
                                          "FALSE"))
@@ -10342,7 +10342,7 @@ function(x, ...)
 
 ### ** .bad_DESCRIPTION_URL_field_parts
 
-.bad_DESCRIPTION_URL_field_parts <- 
+.bad_DESCRIPTION_URL_field_parts <-
 function(s)
 {
     if(is.na(s)) return(character())
@@ -10356,7 +10356,7 @@ function(s)
         z[!grepl("^<?(svn://|doi:)", z)]
     }
 }
-        
+
 
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 ### mode: outline-minor ***