Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0212101054550.23694-100000@markov.stats>
Date: 2002-12-10T11:57:04Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: C caron character in R
In-Reply-To: <000001c2a029$704b46c0$3364a8c0@sp.unilj.si>
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Bojan Leskosek wrote:
> Hi!
> In R 1.6.1. for Windows using RGui interface I try to use characters of
> Slovenian alphabet. Slovenia is a small Slavic country south of Austria
> with 3 characters which are not found in English alphabet, namely C, S
> and Z- all with caron. As S and Z are presented OK in both Console and
> Graphics window, this is not the case with C caron, which is shown as E
> acute- for an example please see:
> http://www.sp.uni-lj.si/bojan/statuni/datoteke/temp/q.gif
> (In RTerm problem is even worse - all characters are wrong. I don't want
> to bother you with RTerm, because I rarely use it).
> Any idea?
Yes, the problem is in your version of Windows. What OS is this?
R just asks Windows which characters are which, and Windows sometimes
lies.