[Rd] Unicode display problem with data frames under Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 25/05/2015 12:43 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 25/05/2015 11:37 AM, Ista Zahn wrote:
> > AFAIK this is the way it works on Windows. It has been discussed in several
> > places, e.g.
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17715956/why-do-some-unicode-characters-display-in-matrices-but-not-data-frames-in-r
> > ,
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17715956/why-do-some-unicode-characters-display-in-matrices-but-not-data-frames-in-r
> > (both of these came up when I googled the subject line of your email).
>
> Yes, but it is a bug, just a hard one to fix.  It needs someone to
> dedicate a serious amount of time to deal with it.
>
> Since most of the people who tend to do that generally use systems in
> UTF-8 locales where this isn't a problem, or don't use Windows, it is
> languishing.

Oops, I meant to write "or don't use non-ascii characters", the UTF-8 
locales implies non-Windows.

Duncan Murdoch