Hi!<br><br>The past week I came to a problem regarding R and Greek Language. The short story is that although user can do everything in Greek language on a terminal running R (in utf8) he cannot plot and print plots (problem with greek letters). See a picture here
<a href="http://users.forthnet.gr/the/isoumpasis/data/Screenshot.png">http://users.forthnet.gr/the/isoumpasis/data/Screenshot.png</a> <br><br>I never came to a problem like this before because I am aware of problems of Greek language and I keep my data in English. However I came to a solution which I am writing for the greek e-magazine of greek users of Linux. Here (
<a href="http://users.forthnet.gr/the/isoumpasis/data/example.png">http://users.forthnet.gr/the/isoumpasis/data/example.png</a>) is a screenshoot after the solution. (We are discussing writing an article also on RKWard).<br>
<br>Well, let's come to main point. For the above to work, user must work in R in ISO-8859-7. That's the reason I had to play with rk.temp.convert to make it convert to this encoding as I said to a previous mail on another thread.
<br><br>Moreover and I find this critical enough, databases like MySQL use various encodings, among which ISO. I do not know if there is a mechanism to convert the enconding when connecting to a database and pulling data but I believe there is not. I believe that in the future RKWard if it is to get into business should develop this functionality, and I mean connect to a database and pull data. But different encodings should create problems.
<br><br>For the above reasons I believe that RKWard should support more encodings. Is it feasible? And is it possible?<br><br>Sorry for the time of the message, having a release in this week, but now I found the time to organize my thoughts. This however if it is to be done it is for a later time.
<br><br>Regards,<br>Ilias<br>