Dear List,

I have data which contain the special German characters "ä", "ö", "ü" etc. After reading the
text files into R those characters are displayed strangely, e. g. "ä" is  "Ã¤". The first step is to
replace those with their typical transcription, e. g. "ä" becomes "ae" by using the gsub
command.

Until I upgraded to version 2.10.1 (from 2.8.0) this worked perfectly for all characters. Now it
works for all characters but "Ü".

temp1<-gsub("Ãoe","Ue",temp1)

This letter is displayed as "Ãoe" (as before), but R is no longer able to find this character. The
problem seems to be linked to the "oe" part, since I could substitute for "Ã" without a problem.
Strangely if I get the two characters by extracting them with the substr command to a variable
and then using the variable I am able to substitute without a problem. Any ideas, what I am
missing?

Thanks,

Michael

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