ASCII encoding includes 128 (2^7) characters in total.
ASCII uses one byte to store the numbers 0-9, the letters a-z and A-Z, and some basic punctuation symbols, etc. The most widely known encoding called ASCII, which was invented at the beginning of computer techniqure. How to store and show them in computer? Yes, character encoding. There are thousands of hundrads of characters in this world, like LatinÆ characters, *Arabic charaters, Chinese, Korean, etc. Before we go further, let’t take a look of the basic concept of character encoding. In the following context, I will share my experience of how to configure character encoding for R under Linux and Windows. Such kind of problem can be categorized as: Character Encoding problem.
So they may encounter one anoying problem: garbled text or unrecognizable characters! For example, some Chinese user wrote a script including variable names in Chinese, and his English colleage’s computer can’t show those character correctly, and can’t run the script under R. Those users come from different places, speack different languages and possiblely use other statistical softwares. R is so powerful and elegant, that attacts more and more people switch to it.
