This is indeed unfortunate, but expecting Chinese speakers (20% of the
world's population) to write in Latin-1 was also unfortunate.
What I had (and still have) some hope of doing is being able to mark
character strings as UTF-8, probably via a flag bit on the CHARSXP. Then
output routines co
> "Stéphane" == Stéphane Dray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:46:49 +0200 writes:
Stéphane> Thanks a lot for this clear answer. So there is no way to
preserve our
Stéphane> french cultural exception (accented characters),
I agree that there are many French cult
Thanks a lot for this clear answer. So there is no way to preserve our
french cultural exception (accented characters), if we want to be
international... I have thought that the inclusion of a parameter
encoding in data function (e.g. data(mydata,encoding="latin1")) like in
the function 'file'
Only ASCII letters are portable: those accented characters do not even
exist in many of the encodings used for R, e.g. Russian and Japanese on
Windows machines.
There is no way to associate an encoding with a character string in R. We
considered it, but it would have had severe back-compatibi
Hello,
I have some questions concerning encoding and package distribution. We
develop the ade4 package. For some data sets included in the package,
there are accentued character (e.g. é,è...). The data sets have been
saved using latin1 encoding, but some of us use utf-8 and can not see
some dat
