[R] utf8 postscript cyrillic

[Prof Brian Ripley]

'Nothing seems to work' is not at all helpful, and you seem under the
misconception that PostScript supports UTF-8 (sic): life would be much 
easier for device writers if it did.

The postscript() help page says

      More details of font families and encodings and especially
      handling text in a non-Latin-1 encoding and embedding fonts can be
      found in

      Paul Murrell and Brian Ripley (2006) Non-standard fonts in
      PostScript and PDF graphics. _R News_, 6(2):41-47.  <URL:
      http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-2.pdf>.

which shows Cyrillic examples.  We can write documentation for you, 
but you have to read it for yourself ....

On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Martin Ivanov wrote:

> Dear R users,
>
> I am running R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26). I need to prepare an eps
> graphic with a legend with cyrillic words. I tried setting the encoding
> parameter of the postscript command, but in vain, nothing seems to work. I
> tried with CP1251, KOI8-R, UTF-8 and Cyrillic (UTF-8 turned out to not be
> available under /usr/lib/R/library/grDevices/enc). All I get is ????????
> in the final inscription.
>
> Has someone been successful in producing postscript legends with cyrillic
> words and how? Is the encoding the only thing to be tweaked?
>
> I would be glad if you share your experience.
>
> Regards,
> Martin

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