[R] Code \255 no longer working to produce a short dash in base R PDF graphs

[Paul Sherliker]

Ivan Krylov wrote:


>> text(1, 11, "baseline\255defined")

>> text(1, 9, "done")

>> graphics.off()

>>

>> They like that dash - but I never knew what it was called.

>>

>> Recently work updated my PC to the latest version of Windows, and,

>> perforce, I updated to the latest version of R (4.4.2).

>

>Nowadays, the session encoding on appropriately new versions of Windows is UTF-8 [*]. Previously, the native encoding of the R session corresponded to the ANSI encoding of your computer, most likely CP1252.

>Let's see what does \255 mean in that encoding:>

>

i>conv('\255', 'CP1252', '') |> utf8ToInt() |> as.hexmode() # [1] "ad">

>

>Does '\uad' work for you?

>

>--

>Best regards,

>Ivan

Inside my pasted-together constructed titles, I have to use \u{ad}, but _that_ works perfectly.  Thank you very much indeed!

                                        Paul

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