On 21 Apr 2008, at 11:33, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > You didn't tell us your R version (or your locale). Windows has no > UTF-8 locales, so a lot of work has had to be done to allow Unicode > chars to be handled on Windows. It was more or less a general question on R running on Windows PCs. Normally I'm using R on a Mac or Linux. But some of my students asked for the Unicode support for Windows' RGUI.
> Please look into 2.7.0 RC, and in particular its CHANGES file at > > https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-7-branch/src/gnuwin32/CHANGES These are really good news! I would like to express my gratitude toward anyone who was/is involved in that development! Is it possible to download a compiled snapshot of 2.7.0 for Windows XP? Thanks a lot, --Hans ______________________________________________ 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.