R help - May 2006 - A question about encoding

I use R 2.3.0 under windows.
> Sys.getlocale()
[1] "LC_COLLATE=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936"
> localeToCharset()
[1] "CP936"

Now I want to use JGR,which uses UTF-8 encoding.
So when I use save.image function to save something containg Chinese
character with R,and then load into JGR, the Chinese character will
not display correctly.Of course,I can use iconv to convert the
character making it readable.But is there any better way to this?

Thanks.

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On Tue, 9 May 2006, ronggui wrote:
> I use R 2.3.0 under windows.
>
>> Sys.getlocale()
> [1] "LC_COLLATE=Chinese_People's Republic of
> China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese_People's Republic of
> China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese_People's Republic of
> China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936"
>> localeToCharset()
> [1] "CP936"
>
> Now I want to use JGR,which uses UTF-8 encoding.
> So when I use save.image function to save something containg Chinese
> character with R,and then load into JGR, the Chinese character will
> not display correctly.Of course,I can use iconv to convert the
> character making it readable.But is there any better way to this?
Yes, use a better OS!

Otherwise, Windows has no concept of UTF-8 locales, so if JGR expects one, 
the problem is that JGR needs to do the conversions: it is R that is 
running natively and JGR which is `foreign' here.

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