After 1 day searching the internet, I solved the problem with the
following code:
Encode(xml) <- "UTF-8"
# now the ü etc. become ü,etc.
gsub("ü","Ä",xml) # employ the gsub()-function WITHOUT
useBytes-option turned on
Encode(xml) <- "unknwon"
# that was the former encoding
So all in all there is a way of re-encode a character-string to UTF-8,
the Encode() function. The above produces a valid xml-string and - if
I sink it out - a valid xml-file.
Thanks for your help!
Greetings,
Tom
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)?
Best,
Uwe Ligges
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