You wrote your mail in UTF-8. R does not support UTF-8, and that is both documented and announced on startup in such a locale (at least on OSes with standard-conforming implementations):
thanks for clarifying this point.
nevertheless:
1. the mail was (on purpose) sent in utf-8 to transport correctly the output from the R command window (i.e. the GUI provided with the macOS port). it is _this_ GUI (sorry for not explaining this correctly in the first place) where the problem occurs. I'm not using (knowingly at least) utf-8.
when starting the same binary from the command line in a terminal (where I generally use ISO Latin 1 encoding) it is perfectly possible to get the special characters into variables and into plots.
2. the OS is macos 10.3, i.e. essentially FreeBSD derivative and hopefully conforms to the standardsbu R on startup in the GUI gives only:
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R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.0.1 (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R.
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i.e. no announcement whatsoever concerning missing utf-8 support, despite the fact that following input is interpreted in such a way.
so, probably this is more a question to the maintainers of the macOS port:_where_ did R (when startet with the GUI) get the notion that it should interpret keyboard input as utf-8? can I change this (it's not in the preferences, for instance)?
yes ("shell speak").
gannet% env LANG=en_GB.utf8 R
R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.0.1 (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0 ... WARNING: UTF-8 locales are not currently supported
Solution: do not use an unsupported locale.
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, joerg van den hoff wrote:
I did not find this in the archive (hope it isn't there...):
the current release of R (2.0.1) for MacOS (10.3.6) seems not to handle german special characters like 'Ã' correctly:
I get two characters (Atilde quarter) here.
> f <- 'Ã'
can be entered at the prompt, but echoing the variable yields
You mean printing the contents, I presume.
[1] "\303\274" (I think the unicode of the character)
and inserting, for instance
text(1,2,f)
in some plot seems to insert two characters (âÂ) (probably an interpretation of the first and second group of the unicode?).
I believe, this is a R problem or is there a simple configuration switch?
thanks
joerg
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regards,
joerg
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