Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Roger Levy wrote: > >> I have a data frame with Cyrillic text that I would like to be able to >> view under RGui. Unfortunately I can't figure out from the manuals how >> to make this happen -- can someone point me in the right direction? > > You can only do this if you run RGui in a Cyrillic locale. > Unfortunately there are several incompatible Cyrillic encodings, so > let's hope this is the Windows one. If so, set Windows to Russian as > per the rw-FAQ, select LANGUAGE=en and it should work.
Thanks, I understand better now. Apparently the only usable encoding is Windows-1251, which R switches to upon the command Sys.setlocale(,"russian"). After converting my data files to that encoding and switching the Windows locale, everything works great. Many thanks. Roger ______________________________________________ [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
