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Message-ID: <d6b5dcd9-e8cd-3b18-3536-cf00e46bc811@yeah.net>
Date: 2020-10-20T14:31:40Z
From: Jinsong Zhao
Subject: write.csv covert Åland to <c5>land
In-Reply-To: <CAKZQJMCvAz4qTVv12C=x5NzGL21COJEoBrOFrYcEsOBXUONHCg@mail.gmail.com>

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