Gustaf Rydevik wrote:
Hi all,
I hope that there is someone that can help me out here.
I am trying to load() a workspace on os x (R 2.11.0) that was saved in
windows XP (R 2.9). In that workspace, there's a data.frame with names
that contain swedish characters. These characters become garbled,
which is a major problem.
>From the R windows FAQ, I read:
"Note though that character data in a workspace will be in a
particular encoding that is not recorded in the workspace, so
workspaces containing non-ASCII character data may not be
interchangeable even on the same OS. Since R marks character data when
it knows it to be in UTF-8 or Latin-1 (including its Windows superset,
CP1252), strings in those encodings are likely to be transferred
correctly: fortunately this covers most of the common cases (Mac OS X
normally uses UTF-8, and Linux users are likely to use UTF-8 or
perhaps Latin-1 (which used to be used for English)). "
Apparently, my case is not the most common one, and I don't know why.
I've been trying to dig into the load() function, but since it uses a
lot of .Internal functions, I get stuck there.
I've also tried doing options(encoding="latin1"), which doesn't seem
to change anything.
You can't change the encoding when you load, but you can convert the
encoding later (using iconv()) if you know what encoding it is. A good
guess for a file created on Windows in my locale is "latin1", but it's
not certain, and I don't know what is commonly used on Windows in a
Swedish locale.
If you have an example where you know the correct version of the string
and you can show us what you're getting, together with charToRaw()
applied to it, someone will probably be able to make a guess at the
encoding.
Duncan Murdoch
And now I'm stuck. Any suggestions on where to look?
I've run into this issue twice before. The first time I managed to get
it solved, but can't remember how (perhaps a .Rprofile setting
somewhere?).
The second time, I mailed R-Sig-Mac, got some tips that unfortunately
did not lead anywhere, and subsequently gave up. I hope third time's a
charm!
Many thanks in advance,
Gustaf
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