BDR == Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:33:37 + (GMT) writes:
BDR That this prints as an octal escape was always the
BDR intention:
excuse me Brian, but always is not entirely correct:
Originally (say 6-8 years ago), the intention was really something
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Martin Maechler wrote:
BDR == Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:33:37 + (GMT) writes:
BDR That this prints as an octal escape was always the
BDR intention:
excuse me Brian, but always is not entirely correct:
Originally (say 6-8 years ago),
Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
yes. Patrick: it's really the case that recent versions of Linux
and other OSes AFAIK really behave differently : They default
to set locales based on UTF-8 whereas before, often locales
where based on iso-* (e.g. iso-8859-1 for Western Europe-like).
version
_
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch i686
os linux-gnu
system i686, linux-gnu
status
major2
minor0.1
year 2004
month11
day 15
language R
paste(25, °C, sep = )
[1] 25\302\260C
In ESS, I get 25\201\260C
The °C does end up in the plot alright, but
That this prints as an octal escape was always the intention: it is your
OS that is telling R that it is not a printable character. What locale
are you in? For me
1) In en_GB this works (correct, as that is charset ISO-8859-1)
2) In C, I get 25\260C (correct, as that is not an ASCII char)
My
On Tue, 01-Feb-2005 at 11:33PM +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| That this prints as an octal escape was always the intention: it is your
| OS that is telling R that it is not a printable character. What locale
| are you in? For me
|
| 1) In en_GB this works (correct, as that is charset
