[Rd] build package with unicode (farsi) strings

[Ista Zahn]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:11 AM Thierry Onkelinx
<thierry.onkelinx using inbo.be> wrote:
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> Dear Farid,
>
> Try using the ASCII notation. letters_fa <- c("\u0627", "\u0641").

... as recommend in the manual:
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Encoding-issues

Best,
Ista

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> 2018-08-28 7:17 GMT+02:00 Faridedin Cheraghi <faridcher using gmail.com>:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a R script file with Persian letters in it defined as a variable:
> >
> > #' @export
> > letters_fa <- c('الف','ب','پ','ت','ث','ج','چ','ح','خ','ر','ز','د')
> >
> > I have specified the encoding field in my DESCRIPTION file of my package.
> >
> > ...
> > Encoding: UTF-8
> > ...
> >
> > I also included Sys.setlocale(locale="Persian") in my .RProfile, so it is
> > executed when RCMD is called. However, after a BUILD and INSTALL, when I
> > access the variable from the package, the characters are not printed
> > correctly:
> > > futils::letters_fa
> >  [1] "<d8><a7><d9><84><d9><81>" "<d8><a8>"                 "<d9><be>"
> >            "<d8><aa>"                 "<d8><ab>"
> >  [6] "<d8><ac>"                 "<da><86>"                 "<d8><ad>"
> >            "<d8><ae>"                 "<d8><b1>"
> > [11] "<d8><b2>"                 "<d8><af>"
> >
> >
> > thanks
> > Farid
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