Danish characters i R2.0.1 vs R1.9.1 under winXP

The problem is in your OS, which thinks the character \370 is not 
printable in your locale.

Apparently this is a WinXP problem, for it also thinks \366 is not 
printable in German (and other versions of Windows thinks it is).
(Uwe Ligges pointed that out a few hours ago.)

R 1.9.1 did not check, and so made a mess of trying to print non-printable 
characters, in particular nuls and control characters.

There is no simple workaround, as you do want octal representation for 
non-printable characters (e.g. embedded nuls).  What I have proposed is 
that we override Windows' view for upper (>= 0x80) characters.

It does not seem to be common: the only reports before today were for
Chinese, which is not expected to work.

Hi all.

After upgrading to R2.0.1 i get

"æ"

[1] "æ"

"ø"

[1] "\370"

"Ã¥"

[1] "Ã¥"

Whereas under R1.9.1 i get

"æ"

[1] "æ"

"ø"

[1] "ø"

"Ã¥"

[1] "Ã¥"

Any hints apreciated.

Steen

Steen Ladelund, statistician
+4543233275 stelad01.FUNNYAglostruphospDOTkbhamt.dk
Research Center for Prevention and Health
Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark
www.fcfs.kbhamt.dk

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