Do you know what values should I set to the category and locale parameters in order to use UTF-8 encoding in a Chinese Windows XP SP3 environment?
Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_ALL", locale = "") Xiaobo Gu >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] >>Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 9:27 PM >>To: Xiaobo Gu >>Subject: Re: FW: R encoding question >> >>I believe the R Sys.setlocale function only changes it in R, not the entire >>OS. For >>example here we set it to German but the messages from the OS still come out >>as English: >> >>> Sys.getlocale() >>[1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United >>States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United >>States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252" >>> Sys.setlocale(locale="German") >>[1] >>"LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252;LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252;LC >>_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=German_Ge >>rmany.1252" >>> shell("date") >>The current date is: 29/11/2010 >>Enter the new date: (dd-mm-yy) Warning message: >>In shell("date") : 'date' execution failed with error code 1 >> >> >> >>On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Xiaobo Gu <guxiaobo1...@gmail.com> >>wrote: >>> But Sys.setlocale tries to change the option of the whole OS, I just want >>> only >>R to use a specified encoding, how can I do this. >>> >>> >>> Xiaobo.Gu >>> >>> >>>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>>From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] >>>>>Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 8:57 PM >>>>>To: Xiaobo Gu >>>>>Subject: Re: FW: R encoding question >>>>> >>>>>I have never played with encodings myself. Suggest you read the >>>>>postgresql documentation and try different arguments to Sys.setlocale >>>>>in R. You probably have to do that before you initiate the database >>>>>since it might not have any effect afterwards. I am not sure this is the >>problem but its worth a try. >>>>>Here are some examples. >>>>> >>>>>Sys.setlocale(locale="C") >>>>>Sys.setlocale(locale="en_NZ.iso88591") >>>>>Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "en_US") >>>>>Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "English") >>>>>Sys.setlocale('LC_ALL','fr_FR') >>>>>Sys.putenv("LANGUAGE"="EN");Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","EN") >>>>>Sys.putenv("LANGUAGE"="FR");Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","FR") >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>2010/11/29 Xiaobo Gu <guxiaobo1...@gmail.com>: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> Can you help with this. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Xiaobo Gu >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: Xiaobo Gu [mailto:guxiaobo1...@gmail.com] >>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:19 PM >>>>>> To: r-help@r-project.org >>>>>> Subject: R encoding question >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> I am using RpgSQL to retrieve data from a PostgreSQL database wich >>>>>> is with encoding UTF8, and I have some Chinese character in one of >>>>>> the columns, unfortunately R can't show it correctly. >>>>>> >>>>>>> df <- dbGetQuery(con, "select * from test") df >>>>>> a b >>>>>> 1 1 椤惧皬娉\xa2 >>>>>> 2 2 瑕冩 EURO\xa1 >>>>>> >>>>>> I see the following option, do I need to change the encoding option >>>>>> to show the corresponding texts? In my case how to set? >>>>>> >>>>>> $encoding >>>>>> [1] "native.enc" >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Xiaobo Gu >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>Statistics & Software Consulting >>>>>GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. >>>>>tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP >>>>>email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com >>> >>> >> >> >> >>-- >>Statistics & Software Consulting >>GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. >>tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP >>email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
