From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Mon Dec 15 18:15:48 2014
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:15:48 -0800
Subject: [Rd] Making iconv portable?
Message-ID: <B78B80DA-5CDE-4E8C-A3FF-EE0A8BF8CC4C@prodsyse.com>

Hello, All:  


	  What would it take to make ?iconv? portable?  


	  I ask, because I want to convert accented characters to vanilla ASCII, thereby converting, e.g., ?Ra?l? to ?Raul?, and Milan Bouchet-Valet suggested on R-help that I use 'iconv(x, ?",  "ASCII//TRANSLIT?)?.  This worked under Windows but failed on Linux and Mac.  It?s part of the ?subNonStandardCharacters? function in the Ecfun package. The development version on R-Forge uses this and returns ?Raul? under Windows and NA under Mac OS X (and presumably also Linux).    


	 The ?iconv? R code merely calls compiled code, which I?ve used very little in 30 years.   


	  Thanks, 
	  Spencer 



> On Nov 30, 2014, at 2:32 AM, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com <mailto:spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>> wrote:
> 
> Wonderful.  Thanks very much.  Spencer
> 
> 
> On 11/30/2014 2:25 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:

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[Rd] Making iconv portable?
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