Try Sys.setlocale().
marco.R.help marco.R.help wrote:
>
> I am trying to use "sub" to replace patterns in a character array that
> contains german names with german special characters. I have the following
> problem:
>
>> sub("\\xdf","ss","Wei\xdferitzkreis")
> Error in sub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended, fixed,
> useBytes) :
> input string 1 is invalid in this locale
>> sub("\xdf","ss","Wei\xdferitzkreis")
> Error in sub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended, fixed,
> useBytes) :
> 'pattern' is invalid in this locale
>
> Does anybody know how to tackle this problem ?
>
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