[Rd] Unicode display problem with data frames under Windows

[Richard Cotton]

On 25 May 2015 at 19:43, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17715956/why-do-some-unicode-characters-display-in-matrices-but-not-data-frames-in-r

> Yes, but it is a bug, just a hard one to fix.  It needs someone to dedicate
> a serious amount of time to deal with it.
>
> Since most of the people who tend to do that generally use systems in UTF-8
> locales where this isn't a problem, or don't use Windows, it is languishing.

Thanks for the link and the explanation of why the bug exists.

>> On May 25, 2015 9:39 AM, "Richard Cotton" <richierocks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Here's a data frame with some Unicode symbols (set intersection and
>> > union).
>> >
>> > d <- data.frame(x = "A \u222a B \u2229 C")
>> >
>> > Printing this data frame under R 3.2.0 patched (r68378) and Windows 7, I
>> > see
>> >
>> > d
>> > ##                  x
>> > ## 1 A <U+222A> B n C

For future readers searching for a solution to this, you can get
correct printing by setting the CTYPE part of the locale to
Chinese/Japanese/Korean.

Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "Chinese")
## [1] "Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936"

d
##            x
## 1 A ∪ B ∩ C

-- 
Regards,
Richie

Learning R
4dpiecharts.com