Am 27.08.2018 um 15:23 schrieb Allin
      Cottrell:
    
    
      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.
      
    
    OK, I will try that and report back.
    
    BTW, in the guide in the section "Passing matrices from gretl to R"
    I think it would be better to put the low-level read.table function
    in a footnote and mention the convenience function gretl.loadmat
    first, as the recommended way to do things. I can apply that change
    later myself, though, if there are no objections.
    
    thanks,
    sven