Richard, At present the \uxxxx notation only works on Windows in CJK locales, and only to represent characters defined in the locale in use. Now it seems that _does_ include the signs you mention in Japanese. So it is possible that if you start R with
Rgui LC_CTYPE=ja then this will work: it does for me in 2.6.0 (and I see no reason why it would not in 2.5.1, but I updated my Windows box yesterday). I should perhaps add that only windows() devices will work and not say pdf(). Brian On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Richard Rowe wrote: > I'm trying to use the biological female and male signs in R2.5.1 under > Windows XP. I can access and insert these symbols using word-processors. > > In general these should be available as \u2640 and \u2642 but I can't > make them happen in R using (say) text(5,5, "\u2640") message "invalid > \uxxxx sequence" > > I've replaced Arial with Arial unicode MS in Rdevga and I've tried > various setlocale options with no success (the Murrell/Ripley examples > (Rnews 6/2) do work of course ... so I feel I should be able to do this > myself, but after several hours it is time to ask for help). > > I understand from Google results that users on Mac OS and Linux aren't > facing this problem ... > > Richard > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
