[R] FW: R encoding question

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Xiaobo Gu <guxiaobo1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you know what values should I set to the category and locale parameters in order to use UTF-8 encoding in a Chinese Windows XP SP3 environment?
>
> Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_ALL", locale = "")
>

Its OS dependent but you could try:

Sys.setlocale(locale = "Chinese")

and

Sys.setlocale(locale = "")

to set it back.


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