Yes, sorry, I should have said that I was on Windows. In a UTF-8 locale, you could try \u2013 in place of \x96. The character is an endash.
Peter Ehlers Scionforbai wrote: > Hallo, > >> If you need a subscript as well, I like >> >> plot(0, main=quote({NO^'\x96'}[3])) > > > I tried this but I get: > >> plot(0, main=quote({NO^'\x96'}[3])) > Errore in title(...) : stringa multibyte non valida ('invalid multibyte > string') > > My R version is: > platform i686-redhat-linux-gnu > version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18) > > locale is: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 > > What is this multibyte string? Does it depend on LOCALE settings? > Where can I find further docs on this way to pass character > descriptors? > Thanks, > ScionForbai > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.