[ESS] Unicode with ESS on Windows

[Vitalie Spinu]

It works for me on linux. Could you try this in R within an Emacs shell?

  Vitalie

 >>> Kevin Wright on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:27:37 -0500 wrote:

 > For reference, see the first example on this page:
 > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19881553/using-unicode-inside-rs-expression-command

 > I've simplified the example down to this: (Contains a unicode 'fi' ligature
 > that may or may not come through in this email).

 > plot.new()
 > text(x =.5, y = .5, labels = "fi")

 > When I open R (not inside Emacs) and past this code, the windows() graphics
 > device displays the "fi" ligature.

 > When I copy this code into an Emacs buffer, I can _see_ the ligature (my
 > font is Dina, if it matters), but sending it to inferior R causes the
 > resulting graphics window to contain two weird characters instead of the
 > ligature.  Even though the iESS buffer also shows the ligature.

 > Any ideas why this is happening?

 > Side note.  I have unicode text in Excel.  I am struggling _mightily_ to
 > create pdf reports from this data.  R package openxlsx seems to do best at
 > reading the .xlsx file.  I've also tried XLConnect and xlsx.  Sometimes the
 > data shows correct unicode characters inside Emacs, usually NOT in
 > stand-alone R GUI (using Consolas font).  The pdf() device does not embed
 > fonts, so I'm trying cairo_pdf(), but it is crashing.  Now trying Cairo
 > package.  Major headaches...