> On Dec 15, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Kurt Hornik <kurt.hor...@wu.ac.at> wrote:
>
>>>>>> Spencer Graves writes:
>
>> Hello, All:
>> What would it take to make “iconv” portable?
>
>
>> I ask, because I want to convert accented characters to
>> vanilla ASCII, thereby converting, e.g., ‘Raúl’ to “Raul”, and
>> Milan Bouchet-Valet suggested on R-help that I use 'iconv(x,
>> “", "ASCII//TRANSLIT”)’. This worked under Windows but failed
>> on Linux and Mac. It’s part of the “subNonStandardCharacters”
>> function in the Ecfun package. The development version on
>> R-Forge uses this and returns “Raul” under Windows and NA
>> under Mac OS X (and presumably also Linux).
>
> Hmm.
>
> R> iconv("Raúl", "", "ASCII//TRANSLIT")
> [1] "Raul"
>
> seems to work for me on Linux ...
>
also on OS X:
> iconv("Raúl", "", "ASCII//TRANSLIT")
[1] "Ra'ul"
> -k
>
>
>> The “iconv” R code merely calls compiled code, which I’ve used very
>> little in 30 years.
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Spencer
>
>
>
>>> On Nov 30, 2014, at 2:32 AM, Spencer Graves
>>> <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com
>>> <mailto:spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wonderful. Thanks very much. Spencer
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/30/2014 2:25 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
>
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