R devel - Sep 2019 - Printing chinese characters (UTF-8) on R 3.5.2 -windows 10

I have a chinese character on a data frame, but the output of printing it is its
UTF-8 code. Concretely, the character is ? and the code is U+6703. Following the
code I arrive to the instruction
> base::format.default("?")
which prints

[1] "<U+6703>"

I do not know which is the extent of this behaviour either if it follows on most
recent versions of R.

Is it expected?

Thank you!

Iago

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On 9/13/19 11:01 AM, IAGO GIN? V?ZQUEZ wrote:
> I have a chinese character on a data frame, but the output of printing it
is its UTF-8 code. Concretely, the character is ? and the code is U+6703.
Following the code I arrive to the instruction
>
>> base::format.default("?")
> which prints
>
> [1] "<U+6703>"
>
> I do not know which is the extent of this behaviour either if it follows on
most recent versions of R.
>
> Is it expected?
If you are running this on Windows in an encoding where the character 
cannot be represented (e.g. non-Chinese locale), then yes, this is 
expected behavior.

On Unix systems where R can run in UTF-8 encoding (Linux, macOS), the 
character will be formatted/displayed properly.

Best
Tomas
>
> Thank you!
>
> Iago
>
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But if I type
> "?"
the output is

[1] "?"

so seemingly it can be represented. Or, am I wrong?

Best
Iago
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De: Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera at gmail.com>
Enviat el: divendres, 13 de setembre de 2019 11:24
Per a: IAGO GIN? V?ZQUEZ <i.gine at pssjd.org>; r-devel at r-project.org
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Tema: Re: [Rd] Printing chinese characters (UTF-8) on R 3.5.2 -windows 10

On 9/13/19 11:01 AM, IAGO GIN? V?ZQUEZ wrote:
> I have a chinese character on a data frame, but the output of printing it
is its UTF-8 code. Concretely, the character is ? and the code is U+6703.
Following the code I arrive to the instruction
>
>> base::format.default("?")
> which prints
>
> [1] "<U+6703>"
>
> I do not know which is the extent of this behaviour either if it follows on
most recent versions of R.
>
> Is it expected?
If you are running this on Windows in an encoding where the character
cannot be represented (e.g. non-Chinese locale), then yes, this is
expected behavior.

On Unix systems where R can run in UTF-8 encoding (Linux, macOS), the
character will be formatted/displayed properly.

Best
Tomas
>
> Thank you!
>
> Iago
>
>        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel


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