I filed an issue for this on R's Bugzilla as well, in case this makes it easier to track (This is my first time to submit a bug report, please excuse me if I'm failing to follow the appropriate steps to do this).
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18059 2021年2月17日(水) 22:47 Hiroaki Yutani <yutani....@gmail.com>: > > Thanks for confirming and investigating. > > > but it was no one reported in the run up to 4.0.4. > > Yes, it was unfortunate that no one had reported it to the right place > before the release... > > 2021年2月17日(水) 19:20 Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>: > > > > > On 17/02/2021 04:58, Hiroaki Yutani wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I saw several people on Japanese locale claim that, on R 4.0.4, > > > print() doesn't display > > > Japanese characters correctly. This seems to happen only on Windows > > > and on macOS (I > > > usually use Linux and I don't see this problem). > > > > > > For example, in the result below, "鬼" and "外" are displayed in > > > "\uXXXX" format. What's > > > curious here is that "は" is displayed as it is, by the way. > > > > > >> "鬼は外" > > > [1] "\u9b3cは\u5916" > > > > > > But, if I use such functions as message() or cat(), the string is > > > displayed as it is. > > > > > >> message("鬼は外") > > > 鬼は外 > > > > that does not escape non-printable characters, so as expected. > > > > > > Considering the fact that it seems only Windows and macOS are > > > affected, I suspect this > > > is somehow related to this change described in the release note, > > > (though I have no idea > > > what change this is): > > > > > > The internal table for iswprint (used on Windows, macOS and AIX) has > > > been > > > updated to include many recent Unicode characters. > > > (https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html) > > > > > > Before I'm going to file this issue on Bugzilla, I'd like to confirm > > > if this is not the intended > > > change, and, if this is actually intended, I want to discuss how to > > > improve this behaviour. > > > > I am sorry: this was not intended but it was no one reported in the run > > up to 4.0.4. It seems to be working in R-devel so I suggest you check > > that or go back to 4.0.3. > > > > It looks like a line in the iswprint table got deleted in the merge from > > R-devel. I will try to set up some automated checks to see if I can > > find any other problems, but that will take a few days. > > > > -- > > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > > Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
