[R] C caron character in R

[Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Bojan Leskosek wrote:

> Hi!
> In R 1.6.1. for Windows using RGui interface I try to use characters of
> Slovenian alphabet. Slovenia is a small Slavic country south of Austria
> with 3 characters which are not found in English alphabet, namely C, S
> and Z- all with caron. As S and Z are presented OK in both Console and
> Graphics window, this is not the case with C caron, which is shown as E
> acute- for an example please see:
> http://www.sp.uni-lj.si/bojan/statuni/datoteke/temp/q.gif
> (In RTerm problem is even worse - all characters are wrong. I don't want
> to bother you with RTerm, because I rarely use it).
> Any idea?

Yes, the problem is in your version of Windows.  What OS is this?
R just asks Windows which characters are which, and Windows sometimes
lies.