[R-SIG-Mac] Unicode characters in script?

[Michael Hoban]

I have, it doesn't seem to make a difference. It looks like the
problem concerns the PDF output device being used from Rscript as
opposed to quartz in R.app.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:26 PM, R Erickson <raerickson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mylke,
>
> Have you tried using the "\u###" tool, where ### is the Unicode number? For
> example,
>
> plot(c(1:10) ~ c(1:10), main="\u2202 foobie bletch \u0192")
>
> produces a del character and italics function "f". You may wish to use
> different Unicode characters, but these were the first character codes I
> found.
>
> To look up the Unicode numbers, I personally like to use the "insert special
> characters" tool in Pages, which may be found at:
>
> Edit -> Special characters
>
> Alternatively, a web search for "Unicode characters" should give you several
> sites to find this information at as well.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Richard Erickson
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Michael Hoban <mhoban at ucsc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all-
>>
>> I tried searching before posting, but this is one of those tricky
>> questions to search for. My issue is this: within the R.app gui, I can
>> use extended characters in plot labels without any issue (specifically
>> in my case the ∂, lowercase delta), for example:
>>
>> > plot(c(1:10) ~ c(1:10), main="∂foobie bletchƒ")
>>
>> However, when I try to do the same in a script from the terminal
>> (interpreted by Rscript), I get a bunch of errors related to character
>> encoding:
>>  ....
>>  conversion failure on '∂foobie bletchƒ' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot
>> substituted for <e2>
>>  ....
>>
>> Is there a way to make this work? Or is Rscript not equipped to handle
>> multibyte characters?
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>>
>> _mykle
>>
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