On 21/11/2012 6:49 AM, 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?
I can't reproduce this. The file d:/temp/Grömping/test.R contains
cat("it worked!\n")
I am on Windows 7 64bit, and I see the following in both 32 and 64 bit R:
> source("d:/temp/Grömping/test.R")
it worked!
If I look at Encoding("d:/temp/Grömping/test.R") I get "latin1". If I run
iconv("d:/temp/Grömping/test.R", "latin1", "UTF-8")
I get a proper UTF-8 string, but if I run
iconv("d:/temp/Grömping/test.R", "latin1", "utf8")
I get a string with encoding marked as "unknown", and displayed as
[1] "d:/temp/Grömping/test.R"
So perhaps you or we have used an unofficial name of the UTF-8 encoding
in some conversion. We need to know exactly what you did to pursue this.
Duncan Murdoch
Duncan Murdoch
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