On 04/12/2014, 2:00 PM, Richard Cotton wrote:
> If I type a character using \U syntax that has more than 4 digits, I
> get the wrong character. For example,
>
> "\U1d4d0"
>
> should print a mathematical bold script capital A. See
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1d4d0/index.htm
>
> On my machine, it prints the Hangul character corresponding to
>
> "\Ud4d0"
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/d4d0/index.htm
>
> It seems that the hex-digit part is overflowing at 16^4.
>
> I tested this on R3.1.2 and devel (2014-12-03 r67101) x64 under
> Windows. I played around with Sys.setlocale and options("encoding"),
> but couldn't get the expected value.
>
> Can others reproduce this? It feels like a bug, but experience tells
> me I probably have something silly going on with my setup.
>
I see this on Windows, but not on OSX. On Windows:
> as.hexmode(utf8ToInt("\U1d4d0"))
[1] "d4d0"
On OSX:
> as.hexmode(utf8ToInt("\U1d4d0"))
[1] "1d4d0"
I'll see if I can find where the truncation is happening on Windows.
Duncan Murdoch
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