On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Stephen Eglen wrote:
The documentation for the OutDec option says that it should be a
'one-character string'; yet, if I try a unicode character, it doesn't seem
to work. Are unicode chars not counted as one-character?
Correct, it has to be a single byte (and the comment
The documentation for the OutDec option says that it should be a
'one-character string'; yet, if I try a unicode character, it doesn't seem
to work. Are unicode chars not counted as one-character?
This is within the mac GUI, but I also see this on linux boxes.
> x <- '\u00B7'
> nchar(x)
[1] 1
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