Hi,
If I am not mistaken, all Rtools 4.2 (and 4.3) revisions have the same
ARP [1] entries, i.e. all report version 4.2.0.1 (or 4.3.0.1). This
makes it difficult to determine the installed version (is it possible
to determine the installed revision?) and impossible for tools like
winget [2] to upd
indows API to use
> Unicode and have all strings in UTF-8 in R, we would still have problems
> when interfacing with packages that assume strings are in current native
> encoding (without checking), so this problem won't be easy to fix.
>
> Best,
> Tomas
>
> On 2/7/19 3:10
There seems to be something odd with "∞" on Windows (and not only with
read.table)
In native encoding (cp-1252 in my case), "∞" gets converted to "8"
x <- "∞"
Encoding(x)
#> [1] "unknown"
print(x)
#> [1] "8"
charToRaw(x)
#> [1] 38
"∞" is indeed "8"
identical(x, "8")
#> [1] TRUE
Everything seem
This is a follow-up on my initial posts regarding character encodings on
Windows (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-August/074728.html)
and Patrick Perry's reply
(https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-August/074830.html) in
particular (thank you for the links and the bug report!
Thank you!. My apologies again for not including the console output in my
message before. I sent another e-mail with the output in the meantime, so
it should be a bit clearer now, what I am seeing. In case I missed
something, please let me know.
Yes, I am using latin1 and cp1252 interchangebly her
Sorry, I should have included my console output, obviously. So here we go:
Wrong UTF-8 escapes with using print in v3.5.0 devel:
# R Under development (unstable) (2017-07-30 r73000) -- "Unsuffered
Consequences"
# Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> x <- c("€", "–", "‰")
> Encoding(x)
[1]
Upon further inspection, I think these are at least two problems.
First the issue with printing latin1/cp1252 characters in the "80" to "9F"
code range.
x <- c("€", "–", "‰")
Encoding(x)
print(x)
I assume that these are Unicode escapes!? (Given that Encoding(x) shows
"latin1" I'd rather expect la
Sorry, if I am spamming/not using the right list, but I think I might be
onto a regression in current devel.
Namely, special (non-ASCII) characters with latin1 encoding do not get
printed as glyphs with R 3.5.0 devel but were with R 3.4.1.
This output is from
# R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30) -- "S
