[rkward-users] rkward console encoding problem on Widows

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi Donatas,

On Monday 10 November 2014 17:41:38 you wrote:
> I do not think it ever worked for me ( I remember remotely, that last time
> I just switched to my Linux laptop and the problem was solved :) .

ok, then it probably is not anything new.
 
> > Sys.setlocale (LC_CTYPE="lt_LT.UTF-8")
> 
> Error in base::Sys.setlocale(category, locale, ...) :
>   unused argument (LC_CTYPE = "lt_LT.UTF-8")

Ah, yes. I keep forgetting that Windows doesn't speak UTF-8. But since the 
code-pages match in R and RKWard, this should not be the problem.

I now tried in Windows 7, setting Lithunian localization. I get the same code 
pages from Sys.getlocale(). Interestingly, when I try to enter any special 
chars, R just strips them off:

> "Stačiatikių"
[1] "Staciatikiu"

Same when entering in the data editor. They appear correctly on typing, but in 
R, only a stripped version is stored. Obviously that's not so great, but it's 
not the symptoms you're seeing, either. And, importantly, a plain R console 
does not even allow me to enter the special chars. They get stripped to the 
nearest ascii character while I'm typing.

So follow-up question: How did you get those data into R in the first place? 
What does
  Encoding (DATA14$R02)
(or)
  Encoding (levels (DATA$R02))
print?

Another interesting bit is that I have absolutely no problem entering and 
showing German or French special chars in RKWard (but the R console does not 
allow me to enter them, either).

Regards
Thomas
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