On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote: > 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! Thanks for the thanks. > Is it possible to download a compiled snapshot of 2.7.0 for Windows XP? Yes, http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html And it is due for release tomorrow. -- 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.