Text encoding in widgets

[tmelliott]

Not sure if this is a problem with gWidgets2, or further down in RGtk2 ... however, some characters are stored incorrectly in the svalue of objects:

w <- gwindow()
g <- ggroup(container = w)
t <- gedit("text here", container = g)
x <- "K2Data–A–iNZight.csv"
x
# [1] "K2Data–A–iNZight.csv"
svalue(t) <- x
svalue(t)
# [1] "K2Data–A–iNZight.csv"

Only happens on Windows - Mac and Linux seem unaffected.

[jverzani]

Thanks for the report. I'm pretty sure this sits with RGtk2. I recently had a related question and the answer involved setting the encoding.