Re: [rkward-devel] character encoding on windows

2011-05-13 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, On Friday 13 May 2011, meik michalke wrote: > ok, did that, it gets me the same messed-up results. so it's an R issue. well, that doesn't help you much, but I'm relieved, then ;-). > perhaps trying with iconv() might be an option left. Yes, probably that's the way to go. In case you have a

Re: [rkward-devel] character encoding on windows

2011-05-13 Thread meik michalke
hi, thanks for the quick reply. Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2011, 14:11:08 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > well, encoding issues tend to confuse me, badly. me too... why can't all just agree on UTF-8 and be happy with it... > - To narrow down the problem, it's always a good idea to try in plain R, or

Re: [rkward-devel] character encoding on windows

2011-05-13 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, On Friday 13 May 2011, meik michalke wrote: > i'm not an windows expert, but can this somehow be related to the set > encoding of the shell RKWard gets launched from in the first place? i > assume the descriptions mentioned above were UTF-8 encoded at package > build time. just let me know if

[rkward-devel] character encoding on windows

2011-05-13 Thread meik michalke
hi, testing my plugin on windows (XP) i came across another problem. [apart from finding out that system() just silently ignores the pipe symbol on windows and must be replaced by shell()...] it's an encoding issue. basically, i use a shell() call to process some text, R(KWard) takes the retur