Message-ID: <200212111012.gBBACKI19021@pc112145.oulu.fi>
Date: 2002-12-11T11:13:03Z
From: Jari Oksanen
Subject: C caron character in R
In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> of "10 Dec 2002 17:27:38 +0100." <x2isy1n8jp.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk said:
> I can't help you with concrete advice but your symptoms would seem
> consistent with your computer(s) trying to use WinLatin1 which has the
> s and z caron letters, but not c caron.
> See for instance http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html which I
> found via a page by one of your compatriots at http://nl.ijs.si/gnusl/
> cee/iso8859-2.html
> [BTW, the letter you're seeing instead of c/C caron is e/E *grave* not
> acute -- both sit at c8/e8 in latin-1 resp. -2, whereas e/E acute is
> c9/e9 in both variants]
Indeed, it seems that iso-8859-2 for c-caron (isn't that ha?ek in czech?) is
displayed as e-grave (?) in Latin-1 (iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15):
347 231 E7 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
350 232 E8 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
351 233 E9 ? LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
(where the iso-8859-15 display shows e-grave for the middle row, what ever it
looks in various mail programs around the world).
It seems that Windows uses codepage 1250 which is not identical to iso-8859-2,
although R may think so. It may that the difference bites here. The following
(Slovenian: Uni of Ljubljana) page list mainly Linux-specific solutions, but
has some hints for Microsoft Windows as well. These might be (or might not be)
compatible with R:
http://nl.ijs.si/gnusl/cee/iso8859-2.html
cheers, jari oksanen
(who knows ? and ?, but lacks c-caron which would be needed in S?mi language,
but is fortunately available in LaTeX with Babel).
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