AW: [R] Problem with German special characters

[Wolf, Michael]

Dear Prof. Ripley,

thanks for your help. Everything is working fine!

With best regards

Michael Wolf 

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Von: Brian D Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2004 09:01
An: Wolf, Michael
Betreff: Re: [R] Problem with German special characters

Please do look in the list archives: this is a Windows bug worked around a while back. You need to get the R-patched version of R.


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Wolf, Michael wrote:

> Dear list!
>
> When using the German special characters I didn't see all characters 
> in the correct way. Let's take the command
>
> ff <- "äöüßÄÖÜ"   # (for those ones who can't see this in the correct way \"a, \"ö, \"ü
>                   # \ss (?), \"A, \"O and \"U in LaTeX commands
>
> 'ff' will show the output text "\344\366üß\304\326\334" on Rconsole. So only "ü" ("\u) and "ß" (\ss) are shown in the correct way. The other characters are coded in the "\" form.
>
> I found out that this problem doesn't occur when exporting 'ff' to a text file with 'writeLines'. When opening this file with a text editor you can see all characters in the correct way.
>
> What can I do to get the correct output of the special characters?
>
> Thanks for your help in advance!
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Dr. Michael Wolf
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