Hi
This does not help with a solution, but ...
The standard PDF device only does single-byte character sets (sbcs in
the warning message). The conversion from a multi-byte character set
(mbcs), which is what UTF8 is, will only work if the characters map to a
single-byte character set (things like ASCII, Latin1, etc). The
A-acute, probably the copyright sign, and maybe even the k-in-a-circle
might survive the conversion, but a little drawing of a car does not.
Paul
On 11/03/2017 5:06 a.m., Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to use some UTF-8 characters in a plot. Some of them are not
rendered with saving the plot as pdf. Any suggestions?
library(ggplot2)
symbols <- c("\U1F697", "\U00A9", "\U24DA", "\U00C1")
test <- data.frame(
x = seq_along(symbols) %% ceiling(sqrt(length(symbols))),
y = ceiling(seq_along(symbols) / ceiling(sqrt(length(symbols)))),
symbol = symbols
)
p <- ggplot(test, aes(x = x, y = y, label = symbol)) + geom_text(size = 10)
p
ggsave(p, file = "test.png")
ggsave(p, file = "test.pdf")
The last command gives several similar warnings, all related to the symbols
which are not rendered properly:
Warning messages:
1: In grid.Call.graphics(L_text, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), ... :
conversion failure on '🚗' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <f0>
I'm running R 3.3.2 under Ubuntu 16.04.1 and ggplot2 2.2.1
Best regards,
Thierry
ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium
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