On Nov 21, 2012, at 12:49 , Ulrike Grömping wrote: > Dear helpeRs, > > on my new machine - Windows 7 64Bit, R 2.15-2, I can no longer source files > for which the path contains the o-Umlaut (ö). As a historical burden, my > username is Grömping and contains that Umlaut (I wouldn't have chosen it now, > but decided to keep it for easy transfer). I have had the difficulty that I > couldn't use the R CMD tools on files with Umlauts in the path (and solved it > by having a dedicated directory without umlaut in the path for that purpose), > but so far (Windows XP and earlier R versions) sourcing from within R worked > fine. > > The issue is that the o-Umlaut (ö) is always replaced by a capital A with > tilde above together with a paragraph symbol (ö). Apparently, the c3b6 used > for the o-Umlaut in some encoding is translated back to the ö. Can I somehow > fix this? Or is it a bug?
Without a reproducible example, it is hard to tell where things are going wrong, but the symptoms are those of utf-8 codes being sent to something that expects latin1 (or one of the "8th bit ASCII" variations, anyway). > > Best regards, > Ulrike > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
