Message-ID: <51224106.2070704@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2013-02-18T14:56:06Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: mtext unicode failure
In-Reply-To: <CAET1fe4395XbRRJHRqt2ecM5gWSs-7-0oEVehJ-j=vCzYuXwVQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 18/02/2013 14:15, e-letter wrote:
> Readers,
>
> How to solve this unicode input error please?
On what system, in what locale? And where is Unicode mentioned?
If you intended a subscript 2, use plotmath. That is not a character in
the standard Postscript fonts, nor is in the encoding you selected. We
don't know what that is since it depends on your locale: see ?postscript.
Or use the cairo_ps device.
>
>> postscript("~/tmp/test.eps",width=100/25.4,height=100/25.4,horizontal=FALSE,onefile=TRUE,paper="special")
>> testx<-seq(1:5)
>> testy<-seq(1:5)
>> plot(testy~testx)
>> mtext('text (O?)\n more text',side=3,line=1)
> Warning messages:
> 1: In mtext("text (O?)\n more text", side = 3, line = 1) :
> conversion failure on 'text (O?)' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <e2>
> 2: In mtext("text (O?)\n more text", side = 3, line = 1) :
> conversion failure on 'text (O?)' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <82>
> 3: In mtext("text (O?)\n more text", side = 3, line = 1) :
> conversion failure on 'text (O?)' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <82>
> 4: In mtext("text (O?)\n more text", side = 3, line = 1) :
> conversion failure on 'text (O?)' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <e2>
> 5: In mtext("text (O?)\n more text", side = 3, line = 1) :
> conversion failure on 'text (O?)' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <82>
> 6: In mtext("text (O?)\n more text", side = 3, line = 1) :
> conversion failure on 'text (O?)' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <82>
>
> If the command to print to postscript is omitted, a graph is viewed
> successfully, with the title text:
>
> text(O?)
> more text
>
> Thanks.
>
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>
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