Re: [R] replacing unicode characters

2023-06-30 Thread Adrian Dusa
Right on the point, Ivan, that was the issue. The output from l10n_info() was: $MBCS [1] FALSE $`UTF-8` [1] FALSE $`Latin-1` [1] FALSE $codeset [1] "US-ASCII" (and the locale was just "C") I simply needed to write something like: export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8' before starting the child process,

Re: [R] replacing unicode characters

2023-06-30 Thread Ivan Krylov
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:33:34 +0300 Adrian Dușa wrote: > In a very simple test, I tried creating a text file from the Electron > app embedded R: > sink("test.txt") > cat("\u00e7") > sink() > > which resulted in: > > > > I don't quite understand how this works, my best guess is it matters > les

Re: [R] replacing unicode characters

2023-06-30 Thread Adrian Dușa
Hello Iris, Thanks for your answer. The thing is not that I want to obtain , but that it gets produced regardless. In the meantime, I have assessed the real culprit is somehow (perhaps) related to the locale or encoding of the terminal process that I use to run R, in that particular MacOS Electron