Here is the code showing the problem:
myPath = getwd()
cat(\"abcd\", append = T, file =paste(myPath,\"temp1.html\", sep = \"\\\\\")) # This is fine
cat(\"
Try it this way
cat("abcd", file = (con <- file("temp1.html", "w", encoding="UTF-8"))); close(con)
Your code is a bit redundant. Is temp1.txt
on line 5 a typo (.html
)? Anyway, perhaps you should set charset within <meta>
tag.
Take this as an example:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
cat("abcd")
cat("<BR/><BR/><BR/>")
cat("שלום")
cat("שלום")
(x <- iconv("שלום", from = "CP1252", to = "UTF8") )
cat(x)
-%>
</body>
</html>
It is a brew
code, so if you go ahead and brew
it, you'll get correct response. Long story short, the keyword was charset.
The problem isn’t with R (R is correctly producing UTF-8 encoded output) … it’s just that your web browser assumes the wrong encoding in the absence of an explicitly specified encoding. Just use the following snippet (from inside R) instead:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
שלום
</body>
</html>
This specifies a correct encoding (UTF-8), and hence causes the browser to thread the following text correctly.