Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2007, Vlad Skvortsov wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I'm running R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18) on MacOS X 10.4; my $LANG is >> ru_RU.KOI8-R. > > But we are told that all locales on MacOS X are actually UTF-8: it > will not matter as R knows the charset it is using.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Yes, MacOS X does support UTF-8 natively, but actual terminal session encoding depends on your configuration. [skipped] >> From the help page: > > family: the font family to be used, see 'postscript'. > > encoding: the name of an encoding file. See 'postscript' for details. > > See also the article in R-News 2006-2 by Paul Murrell and myself with > worked examples. It is likely that family="URWHelvetica", > encoding="KOI8-R" will work, but you may need to embed the font to > display on the Adobe PDF reader (but not on ones based on GhostScript). Thanks, that helped (though didn't work right away)! Just for the record, I've summarized my findings here: http://vss.73rus.com/blog/notes/cyrillic-fonts-in-R-plots -- Vlad Skvortsov, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://vss.73rus.com ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
