On Jan 21, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > There is no support for files in alternative encodings in RGui's menus: not > to source files nor to load into a pager or the script editor. (I believe > all of those long predate any support for encodings in R.) > > Such provision is rather rare on Windows: files are almost everywhere assumed > to be in the current Windows codepage (or sometimes WinANSI, as in the > 'Command prompt' terminal) or in so-called Unicode (usually UCS-2LE, possibly > UTF-16LE, with a BOM). > > I think you could equally ask the same question in reverse: AFAICS the R.app > GUI has no support for Latin-1 nor UCS-2LE files. At least in our UK > experience, the proportion of non-Windows users is so low that it is those > (including this instructor) who expect to adjust. >
I have added a) encoding choice to the Save panel so you can save a file in a wide range of encodings and b) auto-detection of Unicode files (UTF-16LE with BOM) so they will be handled transparently. Note that R is always run in a UTF-8 locale so this only affects the read/save operations of R documents. There are a few loose ends I want to tackle later next week and document re-interpretation code is included but without a GUI yet (the idea is that if you fall-back to MacRoman you can re-interpret it in any other of the 8-bit character encodings like latin1 if you wish). Cheers, Simon > What might make some sense is for file.edit() to gain a 'fileEncoding' > argument so this could at least be done from the command-line. > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, peter dalgaard wrote: > >> Maybe I'm just overlooking something, but I can't figure out how to >> set/change the locale of a file loaded into the built-in script editor on >> Windows. >> >> The generic issue is that if I make a teaching script on a Mac, save it to a >> USB stick, and open it in the script editor in a classroom, then special >> Danish characters in the comments come out as two-byte sequences, which are >> pretty unsightly. I know that I can convert the file with iconv (or >> iconv()), but then I'd have to maintain two copies of the same file for the >> two operating systems, if I want the students to access it. Would be nice if >> there was something like a set-coding-system to call up via a menu item. >> >> Any pointers? >> >> -- >> Peter Dalgaard >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School >> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark >> Phone: (+45)38153501 >> Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
