>>>>> Kurt Hornik <kurt.hor...@wu.ac.at>
>>>>> on Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:21:19 +0100 writes:
>>>>> 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 ...
and me:
> iconv("Martin Mächler, Zürich. ¡España, Olé!", "", "ASCII//TRANSLIT")
[1] "Martin Maechler, Zuerich. ?Espana, Ole!"
>> 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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