> On Dec 15, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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"
Thanks for the replies. I should have checked my examples more
carefully. Consider the following example and a slight modification from
help(“iconv”):
> x <- c("Ekstr\xf8m", "J\xf6reskog", "bi\xdfchen Z\xfcrcher")
> Encoding(x) <- "latin1"
> x
[1] "Ekstrøm" "Jöreskog" "bißchen Zürcher"
> iconv(x, "latin1", "ASCII//TRANSLIT") # platform-dependent
[1] "Ekstrom" "J\"oreskog" "bisschen Z\"urcher"
>
> x <- c("Ekstr\xf8m", "J\xf6reskog", "bi\xdfchen Z\xfcrcher")
> x
[1] "Ekstr\xf8m" "J\xf6reskog" "bi\xdfchen Z\xfcrcher"
> iconv(x, "", "ASCII//TRANSLIT") # platform-dependent
[1] NA NA NA
This suggests a two-step fix to my problem: (1) Check Encoding(x)
and set to “latin1” if it’s “unknown”. (2) Delete any new \” added by iconv.
Thanks again,
Spencer
>
>
>
>> -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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