7 messages · Peter Dalgaard, Brian Ripley, Donatas G.
How do I make Lithuanian characters display correctly in R graphics? Instead of the special characters for Lithuanian language I get question marks... I use Ubuntu Feisty, the locale is utf-8 ... Do I need to specify somewhere the locale for R, or - default font for the graphics?
Donatas Glodenis http://dg.lapas.info
How do I make Lithuanian characters display correctly in R graphics? Instead of the special characters for Lithuanian language I get question marks... I use Ubuntu Feisty, the locale is utf-8 ... Do I need to specify somewhere the locale for R, or - default font for the graphics?
See ?X11, especially the 'Fonts' section (assuming that is the graphics device you are using: you did not actually say but that is the device most likely to be giving question marks or empty rectangles for missing glyphs).
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
How do I make Lithuanian characters display correctly in R graphics? Instead of the special characters for Lithuanian language I get question marks... I use Ubuntu Feisty, the locale is utf-8 ... Do I need to specify somewhere the locale for R, or - default font for the graphics?
You mean as in
plot(0,main="\u104\u116\u0118\u012e\u0172\u016a\u010c\u0160\u017d")
plot(0,main=tolower("\u104\u116\u0118\u012e\u0172\u016a\u010c\u0160\u017d"))
?
This works fine for me on OpenSUSE 10.2, so I don't think the issue is
in R. More likely, this has to do with X11 fonts (Unicode is handled via
a rather complicated mechanism involving virtual fonts). Postscript/PDF
is a bit more difficult. See ?postscript and the reference to
Murrell+Ripley's R News article inside.
The correct incantation seems to be
postscript(font="URWHelvetica", encoding="ISOLatin7")
plot(0,main=tolower("\u104\u116\u0118\u012e\u0172\u016a\u010c\u0160\u017d"))
dev.off()
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Donatas G. wrote:
How do I make Lithuanian characters display correctly in R graphics? Instead of the special characters for Lithuanian language I get question marks... I use Ubuntu Feisty, the locale is utf-8 ... Do I need to specify somewhere the locale for R, or - default font for the graphics?
You mean as in
plot(0,main="\u104\u116\u0118\u012e\u0172\u016a\u010c\u0160\u017d")
plot(0,main=tolower("\u104\u116\u0118\u012e\u0172\u016a\u010c\u0160\u017d"))
?
This works fine for me on OpenSUSE 10.2, so I don't think the issue is
in R. More likely, this has to do with X11 fonts (Unicode is handled via
a rather complicated mechanism involving virtual fonts). Postscript/PDF
is a bit more difficult. See ?postscript and the reference to
Murrell+Ripley's R News article inside.
The correct incantation seems to be
postscript(font="URWHelvetica", encoding="ISOLatin7")
plot(0,main=tolower("\u104\u116\u0118\u012e\u0172\u016a\u010c\u0160\u017d"))
dev.off()
The encoding should happen automagically in a Lithuanian UTF-8 locale, and does for me. But suitable fonts (e.g. URW ones) are needed.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
The correct incantation seems to be
postscript(font="URWHelvetica", encoding="ISOLatin7")
plot(0,main=tolower("\u104\u116\u0118\u012e\u0172\u016a\u010c\u0160\u017d"))
dev.off()
The encoding should happen automagically in a Lithuanian UTF-8 locale, and does for me. But suitable fonts (e.g. URW ones) are needed.
OK, I sort of suspected that, although it wasn't entirely clear to me whether autoconversion would cover cases like en_LT.utf8, if that even exists. Still, the explicit (portable?) way of doing it is probably worth knowing too (there could be a few pitfalls with scripts getting run outside their usual domain).
O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
The correct incantation seems to be
postscript(font="URWHelvetica", encoding="ISOLatin7")
plot(0,main=tolower("\u104\u116\u0118\u012e\u0172\u016a\u010c\u0160\u017d"))
dev.off()
The encoding should happen automagically in a Lithuanian UTF-8 locale, and does for me. But suitable fonts (e.g. URW ones) are needed.
OK, I sort of suspected that, although it wasn't entirely clear to me whether autoconversion would cover cases like en_LT.utf8, if that even exists.
The locale would need to be in the Lithuanian language (ISO 639 code lt or lit), not some language in Lithuania (ISO 3166 code LT).
Still, the explicit (portable?) way of doing it is probably worth knowing too (there could be a few pitfalls with scripts getting run outside their usual domain).
Yes, the appropriate 8-bit encoding can only be a guess, and someone might be writing French or Japanese in lt_LT.utf8.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
The correct incantation seems to be
postscript(font="URWHelvetica", encoding="ISOLatin7")
plot(0,main=tolower("\u104\u116\u0118\u012e\u0172\u016a\u010c\u0160\u01
7d")) dev.off()
This sequence seems to do the trick, although I do not seem to have a font URWHelvetica Anyway, where do i record these lines to make it permanent? Maybe the explanation was there in Prof Brian Ripley's first email, but I did not get it somehow...
Donatas Glodenis http://dg.lapas.info