[Rd] Print()ing Latin 1 in console (PR#7452)

[Roger Bivand]

Please see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-November/060119.html 
for the explanation and solution (2.0.1 patched) regarding this Windows 
infelicity. Try 2.0.1 patched, and see if it resolves your problem.

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 arnima at u.washington.edu wrote:

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> Latin 1 characters are handled correctly by many R functions, but print() 
> behaves unpredictably in this respect. Using ten Icelandic characters as 
> an example:
> 
>   ICE <- c("Á", "Ð", "É", "Í", "Ó", "Ú", "Ý", "Þ", "Æ", "Ö")
>   # or, in case of browser problems
>   ICE <- c("\301", "\320", "\311", "\315", "\323",
>            "\332", "\335", "\336", "\306", "\326")
>   ice <- tolower(ICE)
> 
>   cat(ICE, "\n")        # correct
>   cat(ice, "\n")        # correct
>   ICE                   # some octal codes
>   ice                   # some octal codes
>   data.frame(ICE, ice)  # some octal codes
> 
> It would be preferable if the characters in that last data frame were 
> human-readable. This bug was not present in R 1.9.0.
> 
> Thanks,
> Arni
> 
> R 2.0.1 on WinXP
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Roger Bivand
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