[R] Non-ACSII characters in R on Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 13-09-17 9:01 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 13-09-17 8:15 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
>> Le lundi 16 septembre 2013 à 20:04 +0400, Maxim Linchits a écrit :
>>> Here is that old post:
>>> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/read-csv-and-FileEncoding-in-Windows-version-of-R-2-13-0-td3567177.html
>>>
>>> A taste: "Again, the issue is that opening this UTF-8 encoded file
>>> under R 2.13.0 yields an error, but opening it under R 2.12.2 works
>>> without any issues. (...)"
>> I have tried with R 2.12.2 both 32 and 64 bit on Windows Server 2008
>> with the French (CP1252) locale, and I still experience an error with
>> the test case I provided in previous messages. So it does not sound like
>> it is the same issue.
>
>
> I can reproduce the error with a file sent to me by Maxim.  From a quick
> look, I suspect that changes will be needed to read.table to handle
> this, and they'll be large enough that they won't make it into 3.0.2,
> but hopefully will go into R-patched after the release.
>

This took a lot longer than expected, but some changes are now in 
R-devel (as of r64831).  Files that can't be displayed in the local 
encoding are not necessarily displayed well, but they should be stored 
properly.  Please let me know of any problems.

I think the display issues can be improved, not sure about solved.

Duncan Murdoch