Dear all,

 I am trying to use "sub" to replace  patterns  in  a character array that
contains german names with german special characters. I have the following
problem:

>  sub("\\xdf","ss","Wei\xdferitzkreis")
Error in sub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended, fixed,
useBytes) :
    input string 1 is invalid in this locale
>  sub("\xdf","ss","Wei\xdferitzkreis")
Error in sub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended, fixed,
useBytes) :
    'pattern' is invalid in this locale

Does anybody know how to tackle this problem ?

thanks a lot!!

Marco

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