Dear R-Help, is it possible to correctly display umlauts in a dataset, which has been created under WINXP, on a Mac-system?
This is the problem: I have imported a German MS-Access database into R 2.14.1 by using RODBC on a WINXP-System. It runs with a Latin-1 encoding (codepage 1252). However, most of the work is done with a Mac (UTF-8 encoding) and the R-dataset has been transferred to the MAC. Here, umlauts are displayed as \x.. (i.e. \xe4 instead of รค). If I set the locale to Sys.setlocale(locale="de_DE.ISO8859-15"), umlauts are displayed as black diamonds. Since it is awkward to enter \x-codes when I work with the dataset, I would rather use the umlauts. Is there a way? Thanks, FB ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
