[R] R 2.0.0 is released

[Prof Brian Ripley]

R does not claim, in 1.9.1 or 2.0.0, to support Chinese characters, so
this is certainly not a bug.  PLEASE read the posting guide and FAQ about 
the definition of a `bug', as well as the need to give useful information 
such as your platform, locale settings (for language-related questions) 
....

It was an extravagant waste of bandwidth to include the whole original
posting, none of which was relevant to your point.

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, rongguiwong wrote:

> congratulations!
> 
> i download the software and install it.
> it is pretty good.it start much more quickly than 1.9.1.
> but i find a problem.
> i have a data frame,the varible"PROVICE' is in Chinese,but it appears like 
> this:
> [1] \261\261\276\251               \314\354\275\362
>  [3] \272\323\261\261               \311\275\316\367
>  [5] \304\332\303\311\271\305       \301\311\304\376
>  [7] \274\252\301\326               \272\332\301\372\275\255
>  [9] \311\317\272\243               \275\255\313\325
> [11] \325\343\275\255               \260\262\273\325
> [13] \270\243\275\250               \275\255\316\367
> [15] \311\275\266\253               \272\323\304\317
> [17] \272\376\261\261               \272\376\304\317
> [19] \271\343\266\253               \271\343\316\367
> [21] \272\243\304\317               \326\330\307\354
> [23] \313\304\264\250               \271\363\326\335
> [25] \324\306\304\317               \316\367\262\330
> [27] \311\302\316\367               \270\312\313\340
> [29] \307\340\272\243               \304\376\317\304
> [31] \320\302\275\256
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> 
> it seems can not display chinese correctly.but in R1.9.1,it display 
> correctly .in R1.9.1,when i use >data$PROVICE,it display chinese directly,but 
> in R2.0.0,the display numbers like "\261\261\276\251 ".
> is it a bug or something else?

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