On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Well, we don't see what you see. but if ? was hex a7, the message is
entirely correct. If you want to enter that, use "\xa7".
We see different things.
Right, and my point is that we do not know what he actually sees.
I see a section sign (double s) symbol. From the
symptoms, I would suspect that the terminal is set to latin-1 or -15 (both
have the section sign at 0xa7) even though the system (and thus R) is utf-8.
I thought of that, but if the system is in UTF-8, so would its keyboard
be. Perhaps this is a remote session from a Windows system to a UTF-8
one? (In which case set the remote locale appropriately.)
The issue seemed to be about entering Latin characters (-1 or -9, I think:
latin-9 is ISO 8859-15), and that is what I tried to answer.
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