write.csv covert Åland to <c5>land
Thank you very much for the hint. I tried it on a FreeBSD machine with locale set to en_US.UTF-8, it works fine. However, on my Windows machine, > Sys.getlocale() [1] "LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936" It just worked as what I posted. BTW, I can not understand why a string could be displayed different as vector or as data frame. Best, Jinsong
On 2020/10/20 21:56, John Kane wrote:
It looks like an encoding problem.
It works fine for me with R encoding set to UTF-8
Here is part of my sessionInfo() results
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NUMERIC=C
?[3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 ? ? ? ?LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
?[5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 ? ?LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
I would suggest issuing the command
sessionInfo()
and seeing what your encoding is.
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 08:22, Jinsong Zhao <jszhao at yeah.net
<mailto:jszhao at yeah.net>> wrote:
Hi there,
Why the same string is displayed in different form?
?> abc[,1]
[1] "?land"? ? ? ?"Afghanistan"
?> abc
? ? ? ? ? name
1? ? <c5>land
2 Afghanistan
And more...
?> dput(abc, "aa.txt")
?> dget("aa.txt")
? ? ? ? ? name
1? ? <c5>land
2 Afghanistan
?> dget("aa.txt")[,1]
[1] "<c5>land"? ? "Afghanistan"
Best,
Jinsong
On 2020/10/20 17:13, Jinsong Zhao wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I tried to export the names of country to a csv file with
write.csv().
> In the resulted file, ?land was coverted to <c5>land. Is there
any way
> could prevent this happening? Thanks!
>
>? > abc
> [1] "?land"
>? > write.table(abc, file = "")
> "x"
> "1" "<c5>land"
>
> Best,
> Jinsong
>
-- John Kane Kingston ON Canada