[R] Unicode characters (R 2.7.0 on Windows XP SP3 and Hardy Heron)

[Hans-Joerg Bibiko]

Quoting Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>:

> On 5/30/2008 12:58 PM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
>> to put it simply. Windows cannot handle utf-8 data. There is no   
>> utf-8  locale available.
>
> Code page 65001 is utf-8.  Most text editors (including Notepad)
> include an option to save in the UTF-8 encoding.
>
> Some programs don't fully support utf-8 (some don't even support the
> native UCS-2), but most don't care.  That's the nice thing about utf-8.
>
> So in what sense can Windows not handle utf-8 data?

Of course, you're right. I only meant in that context R for Windows,  
not Windows at all. Sorry for my incorrectness.

--Hans