[R] ASCII character set and hyphen

[Roland Kaiser]

Am 19.11.2007 um 18:43 schrieb Prof Brian Ripley:

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Roland Kaiser wrote:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> To add to my previous posting
>> I want to give some more deatils give a more precise
>>
>> I want to print a hyphen to a pdf() or postscript() device.
>> As the documentaion of postscript says
>> ASCII Character 45("-") is mapped to a minus sign (ASCII Character
>> 95) by default.
>> The advice given is to use "\173" for a hyphen.
>>
>> But, the following code produces a curly brace
>> instead of a hyphen.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice?
>
> Check your reading before posting?  The advice actually is
>
>      There is an exception.  Character 45 ('"-"') is always set as
>      minus (its value in Adobe ISOLatin1) even though it is hyphen in
>      the other encodings.  Hyphen is available as character 173 (octal
>      0255) in all the Latin encodings, Cyrillic and Greek.

Sorry, I missed to honour the octal coding.

>
> So try "\255".  And please don't post twice.

I tried that, bit it raised an error

pdf("foo.pdf", encoding = "ISOLatin1")
display.ascii.d()
mtext("\255", side = 3)
dev.off()

Warning messages:
1: In mtext("\xad", side = 3) : ungültige Eingabe für mbcsToLatin1



>
>>
>> Roland
>>
>> library(rgr)
>> pdf("foo.pdf", encoding = "ISOLatin1")
>> display.ascii.d()
>> mtext("\173", side = 3)
>> dev.off()
>>
>>
>> R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
>> i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
>>
>> locale:
>> de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8/C/de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] rgr_1.0.3   MASS_7.2-36 akima_0.5-1
>>
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>
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