[Rd] Making iconv portable?

[Simon Urbanek]

> On Dec 15, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> Spencer Graves writes:
> 
>> Hello, All:  
>> 	  What would it take to make “iconv” portable?  
> 
> 
>> 	  I ask, because I want to convert accented characters to
>> 	  vanilla ASCII, thereby converting, e.g., ‘Raúl’ to “Raul”, and
>> 	  Milan Bouchet-Valet suggested on R-help that I use 'iconv(x,
>> 	  “", "ASCII//TRANSLIT”)’.  This worked under Windows but failed
>> 	  on Linux and Mac.  It’s part of the “subNonStandardCharacters”
>> 	  function in the Ecfun package. The development version on
>> 	  R-Forge uses this and returns “Raul” under Windows and NA
>> 	  under Mac OS X (and presumably also Linux).
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> R> iconv("Raúl", "", "ASCII//TRANSLIT")
> [1] "Raul"
> 
> seems to work for me on Linux ...
> 

also on OS X:

> iconv("Raúl", "", "ASCII//TRANSLIT")
[1] "Ra'ul"



> -k
> 
> 
>> 	 The “iconv” R code merely calls compiled code, which I’ve used very little in 30 years.   
> 
> 
>> 	  Thanks, 
>> 	  Spencer 
> 
> 
> 
>>> On Nov 30, 2014, at 2:32 AM, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com <mailto:spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Wonderful.  Thanks very much.  Spencer
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 11/30/2014 2:25 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
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