Dear David, Thank you for your efforts. Inspired by your remarks, I started a new google-search and found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3434349/sweave-not-printing-localized-characters
SO HERE COMES THE SOLUTION (it works on both OSs): pdf.options(encoding = "CP1250") pdf() plot(1,type="n") text(1,1,"\U0171") dev.off() CP1250 should work for all Central-European languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250 Thank you again, Denes > > On Jan 13, 2011, at 7:01 AM, tde...@cogpsyphy.hu wrote: > >> >> Hi! >> >> Sorry for the missing specs, here they are: >>> version >> _ >> platform i386-pc-mingw32 >> arch i386 >> os mingw32 >> system i386, mingw32 >> status >> major 2 >> minor 12.1 >> year 2010 >> month 12 >> day 16 >> svn rev 53855 >> language R >> version.string R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) >> >> OS: Windows 7 (English version, 32 bit) >> >> > > You are after what Adobe calls: udblacute; 0171. It is recognized in > the list of adobe glyphs: > > str(tools::Adobe_glyphs[371, ]) > 'data.frame': 1 obs. of 2 variables: > $ adobe : chr "udblacute" > $ unicode: chr "0171" > > Consulted the help pages > points {graphics} > postscript {grDevices} > pdf {grDevices} > charsets {tools} > postscriptFonts {grDevices} > > I have tried a variety of the pdfFonts installed on my Mac without > success. You can perhaps make a list of fonts on your machines with > names(pdfFonts()). Perhaps the range of fonts and the glyphs they > contain is different on your machines. I get consistently warning > messages saying there is a conversion failure: > > > pdf("trial.pdf", family="Helvetica") > # also tried with font="Helvetica" but I think that is erroneous > > plot(1,type="n") > > text(1,1,"print \U0170\U0171") > Warning messages: > 1: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") : > conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted > for <c5> > 2: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") : > conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted > for <b0> > 3: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") : > conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted > for <c5> > 4: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") : > conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted > for <b1> > 5: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") : > font metrics unknown for Unicode character U+0170 > 6: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") : > font metrics unknown for Unicode character U+0171 > 7: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") : > conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted > for <c5> > 8: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") : > conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted > for <b0> > 9: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") : > conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted > for <c5> > 10: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") : > conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted > for <b1> > > And this is despite my system saying the \U0170 and \U0171 are present > in the Helvetica font. Also tried family=URWHelvetica and > family=NimbusSanand and a bunch of others without success, but my last > best hope after reading the material in help(postscript) in the > "Families" section had been NimbusSan. There is also information on > that page regarding encodings that appears to be very machine specific. > >> >> Note that \U0171 != ü. See >> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/171/index.htm >> Anyway, I have no problem with ű (~u") and other special >> Hungarian >> characters in my R-Gui. It is correctly displayed in the console, in >> plots, etc. The problem is with the pdf conversion. >> >> The same holds for my Ubuntu Hardy Heron system*, with exactly the >> same >> error messages as reported in an earlier thread >> http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg89792.html >> As far as I know, Hershey fonts do not contain \U0171. >> >> >> Regards, >> Denes >> >> * The specs of Ubuntu: >>> version >> _ >> platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu >> arch x86_64 >> os linux-gnu >> system x86_64, linux-gnu >> status >> major 2 >> minor 12.0 >> year 2010 >> month 10 >> day 15 >> svn rev 53317 >> language R >> version.string R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) >> >> >>> >>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:11 PM, tde...@cogpsyphy.hu wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Dear List, >>>> >>>> I would like to print a plot into pdf. The problem is that the >>>> character >>>> \U0171 is replaced by a simple 'u' (i.e. without accents) in the pdf >>>> file. >>>> >>>> Example: >>>> # this works fine >>>> plot(1,type="n") >>>> text(1,1,"print \U0171") >>>> >>>> # this fails >>>> pdf("trial.pdf") >>>> plot(1,type="n") >>>> text(1,1,"print \U0171") >>>> dev.off() >>> >>> Have you tried: >>> >>> pdf("trial.pdf") >>> plot(1,type="n") >>> text(1,1,"print ü") >>> dev.off() >>> >>> Your default screen fonts may not be the same as your default pdf >>> fonts. A lot depends on system specifics, none of which have you >>> provided. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> I found an earlier post at >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg65541.html, but >>>> it is >>>> too hard to understand at my R-level. Any help is appreciated. >>> >>> >>> >>> David Winsemius, MD >>> West Hartford, CT >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > ______________________________________________ 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.
