[ESS] Unicode with ESS on Windows

[Kevin Wright]

M-x shell
R --no-save
windows()
plot.new()
text(x =.5, y = .5, labels = "fi")


Still not working.  I'm now trying variations on this:
(setq default-process-coding-system '(utf-8 . utf-8))

Kevin


On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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...
>



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Kevin Wright

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