Message-ID: <20041102183907.3badb143.stanimura-ngs@umin.ac.jp>
Date: 2004-11-02T09:39:07Z
From: Susumu Tanimura
Subject: About dealing 2-byte code characters(ex.Japanese) in new maptools
In-Reply-To: <20041102173129.3c8dae4e.stanimura-ngs@umin.ac.jp>
Hi there,
Examination of the problem with both Shift-JIS encoded and EUC-JP
encoded DBF in R-2.0 on win98 reminded me that no Japanese characters
can display in the original R for windows from CRAN.
On R localized to Japanese, downloadable from
http://r.nakama.ne.jp/R-2.0.0/binary/win32/, I succeeded to display
Japanese characters with read.dbf() from foreign 0.8-0 on R-2.0, win98
when Shift-JIS encoded DBF is tested. Since we cannot basically deal with EUC-JP
in windows system, trial with EUC-JP encoded DBF failed.
Because I do not have WinXP, I could not examine on WinXP. If WinXP works
only with unicode and dose not work with Shit-JIS, conventional
encoding for windows, this could be essential issue.
I hope this helpful.
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Susumu Tanimura
Dept. of Socio-environmental Medicine
Inst. of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University