Here's how I plot a graph. plot(c(1,2,3), main = "graph ç")
The main-string has a UTF-8 character "ç". I believe I'm using the windows device. It opens up on my screen. (The window says ``R Graphics: Device 2 (ACTIVE)''.) How can I tell it to use my encoding of choice? I looked around the web for explanations on how to properly tell the relevant mecanisms that I'm using strings with a partcular encoding when plotting. I saw many with my difficulty, but no one seemed to explain the whole issue. At first I thought I should tell the device. So I looked at the documentation for various devices. I realized only devices such as postscript, pdf had an encoding parameter. ``My assumptions must be wrong'', I thought. ``Perhaps it's not the device I must tell my encoding.'' Then I come to you. Can you point me towards understanding the issue? You can tell me to read an entire book on encoding, charset and fonts. I'd like to free myself from such difficulties. I use R and ESS (GNU EMACS). (My ESS console says 'U' in the EMACS modeline. It means I'm encoding in UTF-8. I tried '1', ISO-8859-1, also called Latin-1.) Thank you. (*) The softwares R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10) -- "Wooden Christmas-Tree" Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) ess-version: 15.09-2 [Released git: 01328e83039f] GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
