On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Martin Morgan wrote: [...]
In addition I am not sure of the consequences of using charset ISO8859-1.
It is not portable: the manual says only 'latin1', 'latin2' and 'UTF-8' are known to be.
Versions of iconv think the name is ISO8859-1 or ISO-8859-1 or ISO_8859-1 or 8859-1: there is no variant that all those in use (at least 3, possibly two more -- see ?iconv in R-devel) accept apart for latin1.
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