[R] Lattice: key does not accept German umlaute

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Well, you failed to give the 'at a minimum information' asked for in the 
posting guide, and \344 is locale-specific.  I see 'MingW32' below, so 
will guess this is German-language Windows.  We don't know what the error 
was, either.

It works correctly for me in CP1252 with R-patched, and gives an error in 
2.7.0 (and works in 2.6.2).  I think it was fixed as side effect of

     o	Rare string width calculations in package grid were not
 	interpreting the string encoding correctly.

although it is not the same problem that NEWS item refers to.

My error message in 2.7.0 was

Error in grid.Call.graphics("L_setviewport", pvp, TRUE) :
   invalid input 'Männer' in 'utf8towcs'

which is what makes me think this was to do with sizing the viewport.


So please update to R-patched and try again.


On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Bernd Weiss wrote:

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> library(lattice)
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> ## works as expected
> xyplot(1~1, key = list(text = list(c("Maenner"))))
>
> ## works as expected
> xyplot(1~1, key = list(text = list(c("Maenner"))), xlab = "M\344nner")
>
> ## gives an error
> xyplot(1~1, key = list(text = list(c("M\344nner"))))
>
> Is this a bug?
>
> TIA,
>
> Bernd
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