Sorry for not reporting earlier, but the same problem exists with Swedish
verisons
of Windows XP together with R 2.0.0 patched (but not with R 1.9.1) and the last
characters in our alphabet.
"ä"
[1] "\344"
"ö"
[1] "\366"
"å"
[1] "å"
"Ö"
[1] "\326"
"Ä"
[1] "\304"
"Å"
[1] "\305"
Hans Gardfjell
Ecology and Environmental science
Umeå University, Sweden
The problem is in your OS, which thinks the character \370 is not
printable in your locale.
Apparently this is a WinXP problem, for it also thinks \366 is not
printable in German (and other versions of Windows thinks it is).
(Uwe Ligges pointed that out a few hours ago.)
R 1.9.1 did not check, and so made a mess of trying to print non-printable
characters, in particular nuls and control characters.
There is no simple workaround, as you do want octal representation for
non-printable characters (e.g. embedded nuls). What I have proposed is
that we override Windows' view for upper (>= 0x80) characters.
It does not seem to be common: the only reports before today were for
Chinese, which is not expected to work.
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Ladelund, Steen wrote:
/ Hi all.
/>>/
/>>/ After upgrading to R2.0.1 i get
/>>/
/>>>/ "æ"
/>>/ [1] "æ"
/>>>/ "ø"
/>>/ [1] "\370"
/>>>/ "å"
/>>/ [1] "å"
/>>/
/>>/ Whereas under R1.9.1 i get
/>>/
/>>>/ "æ"
/>>/ [1] "æ"
/>>>/ "ø"
/>>/ [1] "ø"
/>>>/ "å"
/>>/ [1] "å"
/>>/
/>>/ Any hints apreciated.
/>>/
/>>/ Steen
/>>/
/>>/ Steen Ladelund, statistician
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/>>/ Research Center for Prevention and Health
/>>/ Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark
/>>/ www.fcfs.kbhamt.dk
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