That's the first time I have heard ß called an umlaut!
This sounds like an encoding problem, perhaps using Latin-1 in a UTF-8
locale or vice versa. In particular, R 2.0.1 (there is no 2.01) is out of
date and has far less support for non-English locales than 2.1.1, and none
for UTF-8 locales (which I believe SuSE 9.x uses by default).
So please follow the advice in the posting guide and update your R.
Your example works for me in 2.1.1 in both Latin-1 and UTF-8 locales.
Your email has been re-encoded several times en route to me, and does not
contain character 142 (which is not a valid char in Latin-1 or UTF-8).
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Henning Rust wrote:
Hello,
I am running R 2.01 on SuSE 9.2 and I use GNU-Emacs and ESS.
When using umlauts like ä ö ü ß for e.g. plot titles , I enter them
directly in the code, like
plot(seq(from=-4,to=4,length=100),dnorm(seq(from=-4,to=4,length=100)),
main="Gauß-Verteilung")
I get a dotted box just after the "Gau" and before the "ß" in the title.
Using the postscript device
postscript()
plot(seq(from=-4,to=4,length=100),dnorm(seq(from=-4,to=4,length=100)),main="Gauß-Verteilung")
dev.off()
I get two warning messages:
Warning messages:
1: font width unknown for character 142
2: font width unknown for character 142
and a space after the "Gau" and before the "ß".
I'd like to get rid of the extra space and the box before umlauts.
Does anyone know how to solve the problem?
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