Re: [R] UTF-8 or Unicode on Windows PC

2008-04-22 Thread Hans-Joerg Bibiko
On 21 Apr 2008, at 12:33, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> Is it possible to download a compiled snapshot of 2.7.0 for Windows >> XP? > Yes, http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html > And it is due for release tomorrow. I played with 2.7.0 on Windows XP. I can do things which couldn't

Re: [R] UTF-8 or Unicode on Windows PC

2008-04-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote: On 21 Apr 2008, at 12:33, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Is it possible to download a compiled snapshot of 2.7.0 for Windows XP? Yes, http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html And it is due for release tomorrow. Many thanks! I can see th

Re: [R] UTF-8 or Unicode on Windows PC

2008-04-21 Thread Hans-Joerg Bibiko
On 21 Apr 2008, at 12:33, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> Is it possible to download a compiled snapshot of 2.7.0 for Windows >> XP? > > Yes, http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html > And it is due for release tomorrow. Many thanks! I can see the progress :) But please forgive my in

Re: [R] UTF-8 or Unicode on Windows PC

2008-04-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote: > On 21 Apr 2008, at 11:33, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> You didn't tell us your R version (or your locale). Windows has no UTF-8 >> locales, so a lot of work has had to be done to allow Unicode chars to be >> handled on Windows. > It was more or le

Re: [R] UTF-8 or Unicode on Windows PC

2008-04-21 Thread Hans-Joerg Bibiko
On 21 Apr 2008, at 11:33, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > You didn't tell us your R version (or your locale). Windows has no > UTF-8 locales, so a lot of work has had to be done to allow Unicode > chars to be handled on Windows. It was more or less a general question on R running on Windows PCs. No

Re: [R] UTF-8 or Unicode on Windows PC

2008-04-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You didn't tell us your R version (or your locale). Windows has no UTF-8 locales, so a lot of work has had to be done to allow Unicode chars to be handled on Windows. Please look into 2.7.0 RC, and in particular its CHANGES file at https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-7-branch/src/gnuwin3

[R] UTF-8 or Unicode on Windows PC

2008-04-21 Thread Hans-Joerg Bibiko
Dear all, is it possible to set up RGUI or JGR on Windows PC to UTF-8 encoding? I looked for it in mailing lists and in the documentation, but I couldn't figure out it. My problem is e.g. to split a given string containing German and Russian words into characters. example: > a <- "asdШas"