R help - Jun 2012 - graphic problems with special characters

Hi,

I am actually working on some auto-routine to import XML file, run some
analysis on them and create graph as jpeg. The files are in different
language french/english/danish even chinese. At the moment I'm focusing on
the European language. I import them using the XML package and specify
encoding="UTF-8" which seems to work pretty well  when I write the
text in
the console, the danish characters æ å ø are printed correctly.

The problem raises when I write these characters in graphics generated with
jpeg(), then the name of the files and the text/title of the graphics are
 not written correctly. I am  completely ignorant in encoding text in R and
I tried my best to find some information on internet I can understand and
re-use to fix my problem but it has been unsuccessful until now.

My configuration is the following :

R version 2.13.1
Microsoft windows XP professional version 2002 with service pack 3

best regards,

Guillaume Le Ray

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I think we need some data and code. Would you please provide some sample data
(see ?dput for a handy way to provide data) and some working code that
demonstrates the problem?

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

> -----Original Message-----
> From: leray.guillaume at gmail.com
> Sent: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:48:53 +0200
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] graphic problems with special characters
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am actually working on some auto-routine to import XML file, run some
> analysis on them and create graph as jpeg. The files are in different
> language french/english/danish even chinese. At the moment I'm focusing
> on
> the European language. I import them using the XML package and specify
> encoding="UTF-8" which seems to work pretty well  when I write
the text
> in
> the console, the danish characters f e x are printed correctly.
> 
> The problem raises when I write these characters in graphics generated
> with
> jpeg(), then the name of the files and the text/title of the graphics are
>  not written correctly. I am  completely ignorant in encoding text in R
> and
> I tried my best to find some information on internet I can understand and
> re-use to fix my problem but it has been unsuccessful until now.
> 
> My configuration is the following :
> 
> R version 2.13.1
> Microsoft windows XP professional version 2002 with service pack 3
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Guillaume Le Ray
> 
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> 
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