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--27464147-733928972-1114633091=:27258 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE I've managed to solve this, but the major problem I had was not R but that= =20 printf was not respecting multi-byte characters in its field widths in Fedora Core 3. It is clear from the C99 standard that field widths are in= =20 characters not bytes. This may occur elsewhere. Similarly, double-width characters in e.g. Chinese will not be accounted=20 for. On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > When a data.frame contains column names with accentued characters > (UTF8 encoded), the alignement of the column names is wrong (extra > spaces inserted). > > For example : ------------------------------------------------ > >> Sys.getlocale() > [1] "[EMAIL PROTECTED];LC_NUMERIC=3DC;[EMAIL PROTECTED] o;[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED];LC_MESSAGES= [EMAIL PROTECTED];LC_PAPER=3DC;LC_NAME=3DC;LC_ADDRESS=3DC;LC_TELEPHONE=3D= C;LC_MEASUREMENT=3DC;LC_IDENTIFICATION=3DC" > >> print (data.frame(aaaa=3D1, b=3D2, c=3D3)) # (ok) > aaaa b c > 1 1 2 3 > > >> print (data.frame(=C3=A9=C3=A9=C3=A9=C3=A9=3D1, b=3D2, c=3D3)) # (extra = blanks) > =C3=A9=C3=A9=C3=A9=C3=A9 b c > 1 1 2 3 > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > This is probably due to fact that the number of white spaces > to insert between the columns is computed using the length > of the column names (in bytes) instead of their width (in > characters), which are different in the example above. > > The problem is the same (extra spaces inserted) with > print.data.frame(..., right =3D FALSE). > > Thanks, > Cyril > > > --please do not edit the information below-- > > Version: > platform =3D i386-pc-linux-gnu > arch =3D i386 > os =3D linux-gnu > system =3D i386, linux-gnu > status =3D > major =3D 2 > minor =3D 1.0 > year =3D 2005 > month =3D 04 > day =3D 18 > language =3D R > > Search Path: > .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grD= evices, package:utils, package:datasets, Autoloads, package:base --=20 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 --27464147-733928972-1114633091=:27258-- ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
