Am 27.08.2018 um 15:35 schrieb Sven Schreiber:

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"',

Hm, I'm having several doubts here: R's locale here is already set at German_Germany.1252, which is correct AFAICT. But if I understand correctly the filename on Windows on an NTFS disk is saved in UTF16? Not sure how that is passed on to R by the OS.

m <- as.matrix(read.table(fname, skip=1, encoding-"utf-8"))

Next I believe the 'encoding' option in read.table refers to the contents of the file, not its name.

I have experimented with several things in R (iconv(), Encoding()), but I'm not an R expert to know a lot about its non-Latin string handling, so it hasn't worked. I guess I will go back to my old rule to only use ASCII in file names... (In fact, I already have...)

thanks,
sven