[rkward-devel] character encoding on windows

[meik michalke]

hi,

testing my plugin on windows (XP) i came across another problem. [apart from 
finding out that system() just silently ignores the pipe symbol on windows and 
must be replaced by shell()...] it's an encoding issue.

basically, i use a shell() call to process some text, R(KWard) takes the 
returned results and looks up some describing information which is added to 
the results and all of it then displayed in the results tab. i didn't 
encounter encoding problems on linux, but on windows both the returned 
processed text as well as the looked up descriptions (happening inside of 
R/RKWard) show malfomed special characters like umlauts. changing the encoding 
in RKWard doesn't help. however, if i invoke the very commands of the shell() 
call directly in cmd.exe, even UTF-8 encoded text files are properly processed 
and results displayed as i would expect.

i'm not an windows expert, but can this somehow be related to the set encoding 
of the shell RKWard gets launched from in the first place? i assume the 
descriptions mentioned above were UTF-8 encoded at package build time. just 
let me know if you have an idea what i could try to nail this one down.


viele grüße :: m.eik

-- 
  dipl. psych. meik michalke
  abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
  institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
  heinrich-heine-universit"at d"usseldorf
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