[ESS] Fwd: Special characters in graphic interface

[A.J. Rossini]

Not ESS, but Emacs might be mangling the character coding (and might
be interacting in a nasty way with R, depending on R's version).

So yes, "they are just passed to R", but character coding can get in
the way if they don't "pass things right" (even or especially "ASCII
text", which is not really ASCII anymore, presents encoding issues).

On 2/22/06, Vincent Goulet <vincent.goulet at act.ulaval.ca> wrote:
> I had the same problem as François in the past. I observed that the little
> squares would not show up in a graphic created with Sweave, so used it as a
> workaround. It never occurred to me that ESS could be at fault.
>
> So, out of sheer curiosity, how/where is ESS involved in this problem? I would
> think that the commands to create the graph are just passed to R and that,
> from then on, anything happening to the graph would be R's fault.
>
> Thanks in advance for enlighting me.
>
> Le 22 Février 2006 14:33, Martin Maechler a écrit:
> > Can you upgrade to ESS 5.2.12 and try again ?
> >
> > 5.2.8 is not old, but we did fix and tweak quite a few things
> > since then, so there's a small chance that your problem will go
> > away when you the current version of ESS
> >
> > Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
> >
> >     > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >     > From:
> >     > Date: Feb 22, 2006 5:44 PM
> >     > Subject: Re: [ESS] Special characters in graphic interface
> >     > To: "A.J. Rossini" <blindglobe at gmail.com>
> >
> >     tony> Hello,
> >
> >     tony> I'm working under Windows 2000 (and XP), Emacs 21.3, ESS 5.2.8, R
> >     tony> 2.2.1 with the french localization (if I'm aware of the
> > significance tony> of localization).
> >     tony> I hope these informations will help you.
> >     tony> Thanks in advance
> >
> >     tony> Fran��ois
> >
> >     tony> 2006/2/22, A.J. Rossini <blindglobe at gmail.com>:
> >     >> What operating system, what versions of Emacs and ESS, what versions
> >     >> of R, and under what localization are you using?
> >     >>
> >     >> (all answers will strongly affect the answer).
> >     >>
> >     >> On 2/22/06, Fran��ois MICHONNEAU < francois.michonneau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >     >> > Hello,
> >     >> >
> >     >> > I use ESS with R under Emacs and I have a little problem with the
> >     >> > graphic interface. When I want to display special characters in
> >     >> > graphics' legends they appear correctly but they are preceded by a
> >     >> > small square (for example "��C" becomes "�����C"). Does a solution
> >     >> > exist (other than copying the code in the R console)?
> >     >> > Thanks for your help
> >     >> >
> >     >> > Fran��ois Michonneau
> >     >> >
> >     >> >        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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best,
-tony

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