[R] UTF-8 or Unicode on Windows PC

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Apr 21 11:33:22 CEST 2008


You didn't tell us your R version (or your locale).  Windows has no UTF-8 
locales, so a lot of work has had to be done to allow Unicode chars to be 
handled on Windows.

Please look into 2.7.0 RC, and in particular its CHANGES file at

https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-7-branch/src/gnuwin32/CHANGES


On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> is it possible to set up RGUI or JGR on Windows PC to UTF-8 encoding?
>
> I looked for it in mailing lists and in the documentation, but I
> couldn't figure out it.
>
> My problem is e.g. to split a given string containing German and
> Russian words into characters.
> example:
>
> > a <- "asdШas"
> > strsplit(a,NULL)
> [[1]]
> [1] "a" "s" "d" "Ш" "a" "s"
>
> works on each Mac or Linux computer, but I didn't find a way for
> Windows.
>
> I tried to set options(encoding) to UTF-8, I tried to use the Perl
> mode in strsplit, but I had no success. At least by using JGR I was
> able to type Russian and see my text correctly but strsplit failed.
>
> I set RGUI to a Unicode font, no success.
>
> I tried to save a script file in UTF-8 or UTF-16 and I tried to run
> source(FILE, encoding="***"), no success.
>
> Is there really no way to use a Windows PC and R to work with Unicode
> texts?
>
> Many thanks in advance for each hint,
>
> --Hans
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