[R] Danish characters i R2.0.1 vs R1.9.1 under winXP

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The problem is in your OS, which thinks the character \370 is not 
printable in your locale.

Apparently this is a WinXP problem, for it also thinks \366 is not 
printable in German (and other versions of Windows thinks it is).
(Uwe Ligges pointed that out a few hours ago.)

R 1.9.1 did not check, and so made a mess of trying to print non-printable 
characters, in particular nuls and control characters.

There is no simple workaround, as you do want octal representation for 
non-printable characters (e.g. embedded nuls).  What I have proposed is 
that we override Windows' view for upper (>= 0x80) characters.

It does not seem to be common: the only reports before today were for
Chinese, which is not expected to work.

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Ladelund, Steen wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> After upgrading to R2.0.1 i get
>
>> "æ"
> [1] "æ"
>> "ø"
> [1] "\370"
>> "å"
> [1] "å"
>
> Whereas under R1.9.1 i get
>
>> "æ"
> [1] "æ"
>> "ø"
> [1] "ø"
>> "å"
> [1] "å"
>
> Any hints apreciated.
>
> Steen
>
> Steen Ladelund, statistician
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> Research Center for Prevention and Health
> Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark
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>
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