Thanks Brian,
I got lost with the coding between windows and linux. I used the ± (Windows:
Alt-0177, instead of "\u00B1") in a code writen under windows and than used on
linux.
eg:
plot(1:10)
text(3,8,paste("±", "alt-numeric 0177 works only in windows",sep=""))
text(8,3,paste("\u00B1"," \\u00B1 works on both platforms",sep=""))
Cheers
Herry
-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:36 PM
To: Herr, Alexander Herr - Herry (CSE, Townsville)
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [R] special characters in linux using dev.print
How exactly are you doing this (see the footer of your message for the input we
asked for)? What is your 'minimal, self-contained, reproducible code', and
where is the output of sessionInfo()?
The plusminus symbol is in the symbol font, and it is also in some text
encodings, so there are several routes you could have taken. For example,
pdf()
plot(1:10)
text(4,5,"\u00B1")
works for me in a UTF-8 locale. (It works in any locale that has the symbol in
its encoding.)
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I want to print ± in a lattice graph label. This works in windows, but
> the linux version has problems - it cannot translate the character.
> Error is "invalid input in mbcsToLatin1".
>
> I use the standard encoding and also dev.print(file="filename",dev=pdf,
> encoding="PDFDoc.enc")
>
> I am afraid I don't know enough about the linux font encodings to figure
> out what to use. So I am hoping others using ± have already come across
> the trap.
>
> Any help appreciated.
> Thanks
> Herry
>
> Using x86_64 opensuse 10.2, R2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
>
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