On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 19:50 -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 18/02/2011 5:58 PM, Matt Shotwell wrote: > > OK, looks like my web browser does render non-ascii characters output by > > R when it's given the encoding explicitly. This works for me:<meta > > http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>. So > > that's another solution, but not a general one. > > I don't understand your final comment. What is not general about > declaring how the file is encoded?
I meant that declaring UTF-8 is not generally applicable, because R doesn't always output UTF-8 (right?). For example, locales that use exotic encodings might output characters that are not interpretable where UTF-8 is assumed. The general solution, I suppose, is to automatically generate the <meta /> line with the encoding used by R. Matt > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > -Matt > > > > On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 12:47 -0600, Matt Shotwell wrote: > >> All, > >> > >> I'd like to automatically output text from R to HTML. In doing this I've > >> run into trouble with non-ascii characters, as my browser (and > >> presumably others) does not render such characters correctly. For > >> example, the 'fancy' single quotes associated with summary.lm are > >> multi-byte characters on my platform. This particular problem is solved > >> by options(useFancyQuotes=FALSE). But now I'm concerned about other > >> non-ascii characters. As an overkill maybe, my current solution involves > >> capture.output and iconv(..., to="ASCII//TRANSLIT"). Are there other > >> sources of non-ascii character? Is there a better or general solution? > >> > >> Best, > >> Matt > >> > >> > sessionInfo() > >> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) > >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > >> > >> locale: > >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > >> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > >> > >> attached base packages: > >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > >> > >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > >> [1] tools_2.12.1 > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] 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. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
