On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Michael Hoban wrote: > Hi all- > > I tried searching before posting, but this is one of those tricky > questions to search for. My issue is this: within the R.app gui, I can > use extended characters in plot labels without any issue (specifically > in my case the ∂, lowercase delta), for example: > >> plot(c(1:10) ~ c(1:10), main="∂foobie bletchƒ") > > However, when I try to do the same in a script from the terminal > (interpreted by Rscript), I get a bunch of errors related to character > encoding: > .... > conversion failure on '∂foobie bletchƒ' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot > substituted for <e2> > .... > > Is there a way to make this work? Or is Rscript not equipped to handle > multibyte characters? >
It seems your'e running Rscript in a locale that doesn't support unicode (probably C). Make sure you use UTF-8 locale (e.g. LANG=en_US.UTF-8) Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
