You wrote your mail in UTF-8. R does not support UTF-8, and that is both documented and announced on startup in such a locale (at least on OSes with standard-conforming implementations):
gannet% env LANG=en_GB.utf8 R R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.0.1 (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0 ... WARNING: UTF-8 locales are not currently supported Solution: do not use an unsupported locale. On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, joerg van den hoff wrote: > I did not find this in the archive (hope it isn't there...): > > the current release of R (2.0.1) for MacOS (10.3.6) seems not to handle > german special characters like 'ü' correctly: I get two characters (Atilde quarter) here. > > f <- 'ü' > > can be entered at the prompt, but echoing the variable yields You mean printing the contents, I presume. > [1] "\303\274" (I think the unicode of the character) > > and inserting, for instance > > text(1,2,f) > > in some plot seems to insert two characters (√º) (probably an > interpretation of the first and second group of the unicode?). > > I believe, this is a R problem or is there a simple configuration switch? > > > thanks > > joerg > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > -- 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 ______________________________________________ [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
