On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Gavin Simpson wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Following advice posted to this list a while back by Prof Ripley [1], I
> have been trying to draw a per mille character [2] in an axis label.
>
> This should give the correct character:
>
> plot(1:10, ylab = "\u2030")
>
> but all I get is '"S'. I'm running linux (FC5) and have fonts installed
> that have the correct character (viewed in the Gnome character map at
> least).
On what device? If X11, this is almost always a font selection issue.
Unicode support in X11 fonts is a complex issue that seems to vary with
every minor update.
> I have also tried plotting to a pdf device with a font family that the
> character map tool shows I have a per mille glyph for, e.g.:
What does character map have to do with postscript fonts?
> pdf("~/tmp/test_per_mille.pdf", paper = "a4", family = "URWBookman")
> plot(1:10, ylab = "\u2030")
> dev.off()
>
> But all I get here is a period or a dot-like symbol.
But see the article in R-news 2006-2 about this. All we can do for PDF is
to use an appropriate 8-bit font map, or a CJK font. It seems that e.g.
encoding="CP1251" works, even for Helvetica.
--
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