>>>>> Spencer Graves writes:
> Hello, All:
> What would it take to make “iconv” portable?
> I ask, because I want to convert accented characters to
> vanilla ASCII, thereby converting, e.g., ‘Raúl’ to “Raul”, and
> Milan Bouchet-Valet suggested on R-help that I use 'iconv(x,
> “", "ASCII//TRANSLIT”)’. This worked under Windows but failed
> on Linux and Mac. It’s part of the “subNonStandardCharacters”
> function in the Ecfun package. The development version on
> R-Forge uses this and returns “Raul” under Windows and NA
> under Mac OS X (and presumably also Linux).
Hmm.
R> iconv("Raúl", "", "ASCII//TRANSLIT")
[1] "Raul"
seems to work for me on Linux ...
-k
> The “iconv” R code merely calls compiled code, which I’ve used very
> little in 30 years.
> Thanks,
> Spencer
>> On Nov 30, 2014, at 2:32 AM, Spencer Graves
>> <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com
>> <mailto:spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Wonderful. Thanks very much. Spencer
>>
>>
>> On 11/30/2014 2:25 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
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