Yes, it was the section sign (double s) symbol that I was trying to print connecting from a Windows machine with Latin1 encoding to a UTF-8 Linux machine. I changed the translation behaviour in my Putty SSH from Latin1 to UTF-8 and now the interactive R programming works. My scripts which I run with Rscript my_script.r contain quite some Latin-1 characters. These ran ok in R2.7.0 but not any more in R2.8.1 but I presume this is because in 2.7.1 the changes made to the system indicated 'The parser sometimes accepted invalid quoted strings in a UTF-8 locale'. So this means for me I need to change the scripts I develop in Latin1 on Windows to UTF-8 before I upload them to our server. Thanks for the help.
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] Verzonden: woensdag 31 december 2008 9:22 Aan: Peter Dalgaard CC: Wijffels, Jan; r-help@r-project.org Onderwerp: Re: [R] issue with encoding in R-2.8.1 invalid multibyte character 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. -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk 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.
