Re: [Gretl-users] R (foreign language): non-Ascii chars in gretl.loadmat on Windows

I think the solution is (a) make sure your locale is set correctly within R, using Sys.setlocale() if need be, and (b) tell R that the incoming filename is in UTF-8. For the read.table() function this would be a matter of appending the argument 'encoding="utf-8"', as in m <- as.matrix(read.table(fname, skip=1, encoding-"utf-8")) If you can confirm that this works (for some UTF-8 path of your choosing) we can add the encoding spec to the gretl.loadmat function for R on Windows.