[R] german umlaut problem under MacOS

[joerg van den hoff]

I did not find this in the archive (hope it isn't there...):

the current release of R (2.0.1) for MacOS (10.3.6) seems not to handle
german special characters like 'ü' correctly:


 > f <- 'ü'

can be entered at the prompt, but echoing the variable yields

[1] "\303\274"  (I think the unicode of the character)

and inserting, for instance

text(1,2,f)

in some plot seems to insert two characters (ü) (probably an 
interpretation of the first and second group of the unicode?).

I believe, this is a R problem or is there a simple configuration switch?


thanks

joerg