The answer depends on the encoding of the file containing the Chinese characters and on the version of R (since you are using Windows). I copied your subject line into Wordpad and and added some syntax to make a valid R expression s <- "永创 via R-help" I then saved it with the type "Unicode Text Document". In my version of Wordpad this means UTF-16. The bytes in the file are 4.2.0> readBin("Chinese-utf-16.txt", what="raw", n=file.size("Chinese-utf-16.txt")) [1] ff fe 73 00 20 00 3c 00 2d 00 20 00 22 00 38 6c 1b 52 [19] 20 00 76 00 69 00 61 00 20 00 52 00 2d 00 68 00 65 00 [37] 6c 00 70 00 22 00 0d 00 0a 00 All the nulls in the file are a hint that this is encoded using UTF-16, not UTF-8.
With R-4.2.0 (released a few days ago) I can source the file with 4.2.0> source("Chinese-utf-16.txt", encoding="UTF-16") 4.2.0> s [1] "永创 via R-help" 4.2.0> Encoding(s) [1] "UTF-8" With R-4.1.2 I get > source("Chinese-utf-16.txt", encoding="UTF-16") Error in source("Chinese-utf-16.txt", encoding = "UTF-16") : Chinese-utf-16.txt:1:6: unexpected INCOMPLETE_STRING 1: s <- " ^ In addition: Warning message: In readLines(file, warn = FALSE) : invalid input found on input connection 'Chinese-utf-16.txt' > source(file("Chinese-utf-16.txt", encoding="UTF-16")) > s [1] "<U+6C38><U+521B> via R-help" > source(file("Chinese-utf-16.txt", encoding="UTF-16"), encoding="UTF-8") > s [1] "永创 via R-help" > Encoding(s) [1] "UTF-8" > charToRaw(s) [1] e6 b0 b8 e5 88 9b 20 76 69 61 20 52 2d 68 65 6c 70 R-4.2.0 makes this much easier. -Bill On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 1:04 AM 永创 via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Garbled characters appear in Chinese annotation when opening program > script using RGui (see attached picture). I use a variety of methods have > not been solved, I hope to help me solve this problem. Thank you. > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.