Re: [R] New problem printing °C in plots

[Patrick Connolly]

On Tue, 01-Feb-2005 at 11:33PM +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

|> That this prints as an octal escape was always the intention: it is your 
|> OS that is telling R that it is not a printable character.  What locale 
|> are you in?  For me
|> 
|> 1) In en_GB this works (correct, as that is charset ISO-8859-1)
|> 2) In C, I get "25\260C" (correct, as that is not an ASCII char)
|> 
|> My guess is that you have R running in a C locale and emacs in a UTF-8 
|> locale, since the UTF-8 representation of that symbol is c2b0, in octal 
|> \302\260.  If that is what is going on, 1.8.1 would have been equally 
|> confused (it might have printed UTF-8, but it would not plot it), so I 


 1.8.1 was not confused.  Maybe confused to a similar degree, but
confused in a different way.  It prints to screen and it used to plot
to a postscript device fine.  I seem to remember that it didn't plot
to an X11 device correctly.  

Now, X11 and postscript both have the extra character.

[...]

|> 
|> Note that at least one set of RPMs now runs R in the C locale (but that's 
|> not part of R per se).  If you run in en_NZ I think you will find R works 
|> to your taste.  The good news is that R-devel already supports en_NZ.utf8, 
|> and so 2.1.0 will in a couple of months.

I've found that simply using the string "\260C" instead of Emacs's
trick works both in X11 and postscript, so I'll survive until then --
though I kind of miss that bit of WYSIWYG.


Thanks


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