[R] Question about unicode characters in tcltk

[Peter Dalgaard]

R Help wrote:
> hello list,
>
> Can someone help me figure out why the following code doesn't work?
> I'm trying to but both Greek letters and subscripts into a tcltk menu.
>  The code creates all the mu's, and the 1 and 2 subscripts, but it
> won't create the 0.  Is there a certain set of characters that R won't
> recognize the unicode for?  Or am I input the \u2080 incorrectly?
>
> library(tcltk)
> m <-tktoplevel()
> frame1 <- tkframe(m)
> frame2 <- tkframe(m)
> frame3 <- tkframe(m)
> entry1 <- tkentry(frame1,width=5,bg='white')
> entry2 <- tkentry(frame2,width=5,bg='white')
> entry3 <- tkentry(frame3,width=5,bg='white')
>
> tkpack(tklabel(frame1,text='\u03bc\u2080'),side='left')
> tkpack(tklabel(frame2,text='\u03bc\u2081'),side='left')
> tkpack(tklabel(frame3,text='\u03bc\u2082'),side='left')
>
> tkpack(frame1,entry1,side='top')
> tkpack(frame2,entry2,side='top')
> tkpack(frame3,entry3,side='top')
>
> thanks
> -- Sam
>
>   
Which OS was this? I can reproduce the issue on SuSE, but NOT Fedora 7.