>>> >>> > funny.g<- "\u1E21" >>> > funny.g >> >> [1] "ḡ" >> >>> > data.frame (funny.g) -> funny.g >>> > funny.g$funny.g >> >> [1] ḡ >> Levels:<U+1E21> > > I think the problem is in the data.frame code, not in writing. Data.frames > try to display things in a readable way, and since you're on Windows where > UTF-8 is not really supported, the code helpfully changes that character to > the "<U+1E21>" string. for display.
I thought the data.frame function didn't alter the unicode coding, since funny.g$funny.g above still displays the right unicode character (although it does list the levels as <U+1E21>). > You should be able to write the Unicode character to file if you use lower > level methods such as cat(), on a connection opened using the file() > function with the encoding set explicitly. I'm sorry, but I don't understand what it means "to use cat() on a connection opened using the file() function". Could you please clarify that? Thanks Sverre ______________________________________________ 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.
