[R] R does not support UTF-8 (was german umlaut problem under MacOS)

[Brian D Ripley]

You wrote your mail in UTF-8.  R does not support UTF-8, and that is both
documented and announced on startup in such a locale (at least on OSes
with standard-conforming implementations):

gannet% env LANG=en_GB.utf8 R

R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Version 2.0.1  (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0
...
WARNING: UTF-8 locales are not currently supported

Solution: do not use an unsupported locale.


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, joerg van den hoff wrote:

> I did not find this in the archive (hope it isn't there...):
>
> the current release of R (2.0.1) for MacOS (10.3.6) seems not to handle
> german special characters like 'ü' correctly:

I get two characters (Atilde quarter) here.

>  > f <- 'ü'
>
> can be entered at the prompt, but echoing the variable yields

You mean printing the contents, I presume.

> [1] "\303\274"  (I think the unicode of the character)
>
> and inserting, for instance
>
> text(1,2,f)
>
> in some plot seems to insert two characters (ü) (probably an
> interpretation of the first and second group of the unicode?).
>
> I believe, this is a R problem or is there a simple configuration switch?
>
>
> thanks
>
> joerg
>
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