[R] write.csv covert Åland to <c5>land

[Jinsong Zhao]

Thank you very much for the hint. I tried it on a FreeBSD machine with 
locale set to en_US.UTF-8, it works fine.

However, on my Windows machine,
 > Sys.getlocale()
[1] "LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese 
(Simplified)_China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese 
(Simplified)_China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936"

It just worked as what I posted.

BTW, I can not understand why a string could be displayed different as 
vector or as data frame.

Best,
Jinsong

On 2020/10/20 21:56, John Kane wrote:
> It looks like an encoding problem.
> 
> It works fine for me with R encoding set to UTF-8
> 
> Here is part of my sessionInfo() results
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>   [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
>   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
> 
> I would suggest issuing the command
> sessionInfo()
> and seeing what your encoding is.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 08:22, Jinsong Zhao <jszhao using yeah.net 
> <mailto:jszhao using yeah.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi there,
> 
>     Why the same string is displayed in different form?
> 
>       > abc[,1]
>     [1] "Åland"       "Afghanistan"
>       > abc
>                name
>     1    <c5>land
>     2 Afghanistan
> 
>     And more...
> 
>       > dput(abc, "aa.txt")
>       > dget("aa.txt")
>                name
>     1    <c5>land
>     2 Afghanistan
>       > dget("aa.txt")[,1]
>     [1] "<c5>land"    "Afghanistan"
> 
>     Best,
>     Jinsong
> 
>     On 2020/10/20 17:13, Jinsong Zhao wrote:
>      > Hi there,
>      >
>      > I tried to export the names of country to a csv file with
>     write.csv().
>      > In the resulted file, Åland was coverted to <c5>land. Is there
>     any way
>      > could prevent this happening? Thanks!
>      >
>      >  > abc
>      > [1] "Åland"
>      >  > write.table(abc, file = "")
>      > "x"
>      > "1" "<c5>land"
>      >
>      > Best,
>      > Jinsong
>      >
> -- 
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada