Re: [R] special characters in linux using dev.print

2007-10-08 Thread Alexander.Herr
p="")) text(8,3,paste("\u00B1"," \\u00B1 works on both platforms",sep="")) Cheers Herry -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:36 PM To: Herr, Alexander Herr - Herry (CSE, Townsville) Cc

Re: [R] special characters in linux using dev.print

2007-10-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
How exactly are you doing this (see the footer of your message for the input we asked for)? What is your 'minimal, self-contained, reproducible code', and where is the output of sessionInfo()? The plusminus symbol is in the symbol font, and it is also in some text encodings, so there are seve

[R] special characters in linux using dev.print

2007-10-07 Thread Alexander.Herr
Hi List, I want to print ± in a lattice graph label. This works in windows, but the linux version has problems - it cannot translate the character. Error is "invalid input in mbcsToLatin1". I use the standard encoding and also dev.print(file="filename",dev=pdf, encoding="PDFDoc.enc") I am afr