[R] FW: R encoding question

[Xiaobo Gu]

But locale "Chinese" will use GBK encoding by default, how to use UTF-8
encoding

I have tried the following, neither of them works.

Sys.setlocale(locale = "zh_CN.UTF-8") 

Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_CTYPE", locale= "zh_CN.UTF-8")


Xiaobo Gu


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at gmail.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 8:57 PM
>>To: Xiaobo Gu
>>Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>>Subject: Re: FW: R encoding question
>>
>>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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