Please can we have a full reproducible example, including the locales used, and exactly how you 'saved' the plot? (As we do ask.)
If Chinese characters are 'two-byte', then this likely will not work (but at least European locales on MacOS X are UTF-8, so I expected Chinese ones to be also). The issues are discussed in an article in the May 2006 R-News. You do need to set up a suitable family to support Chinese, and the error message suggests that you have failed to do so: if so this is not a bug in R. On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Pavel Stranak > Version: 2.3.1 > OS: Mac OS X > Submission from: (NULL) (195.113.20.81) > > > Whenever I draw a plot containing Chinese character, it draws fine on screen, > but never saves to a file. > It does not matter, whether I first draw it on screen and than save or draw > straight to pdf. > It is also all the same, whether the characters are in label or in the plot > itself (via "pch=..." or text()). > The Error is always: "conversion failure in 'mbcsToSbcs' " > > This is an example: > > plot(1:20, 1:20, main="汉语 Derivational Characters' > Productivity") > # it draws well, I attempt to 'Save As...' in GUI > > Error in dev.copy(device = pdf, file = "/Users/pavel/Desktop/hanyu.pdf", : > conversion failure in 'mbcsToSbcs' > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
