Quoting Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
R is not able to re-encode the file to the native encoding. But if you
keep it in UTF-8, what is the problem to grep for the specific
characters (as grep and friends support the argument useBytes these
days)?
The Problem with UTF-8 is that I'm not able to cat a valid xml-file.
Using the encoding="UTF-8" option in either the file() or the
readLines() command will cause an error. If I would leave out both,
it's not possible for me to run a gsub command on the string, because
of special characters - even with the useBytes-option turned on:
grep("über 40%",xml,useBytes=TRUE)
will return integer(0). And the problem is obvious:
By reading in the file, the "ü" was taken to "üb".
However I believe, that I did not use the useBytes-option in the right
way, didn't I?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Best regards, Tom
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