non-standard letters in tableHTML

[clemens-zauchner]

If you have non-english letters in the tableHTML, it will not be displayed correctly. e.g.

data.frame(a = c("Büro", "γεια")) %>%
  tableHTML(rownames = FALSE)

the table would look like this:

You can fix it by specifying utf-8 as charset in a meta tag like this:
''

If you add it to the tableHTML string, the table is printed correctly:

data.frame(a = c("Büro", "γεια")) %>%
  tableHTML(rownames = FALSE) %>%
  paste0('<META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">',
         .,
         collapse = "\n") %>%
  tableHTML:::print.tableHTML()

[LyzandeR]

Should be easy to implement I guess. A small tag addition. Although the web site maybe might take that into account i.e. the web developer might have the meta tag in there anyway. But we can add it anyway as an argument.

Good find!

[LyzandeR]

Doesn't work for me btw:

data.frame(a = c("Büro", "γεια")) %>%
  tableHTML(rownames = FALSE) %>%
  paste0('<META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">',
         .,
         collapse = "\n") %>%
  tableHTML:::print.tableHTML()

[clemens-zauchner]

that's very interesting. it works for me both on mac and on ubuntu.

[clemens-zauchner]

I think it would be a good idea to include that line anyways, because it will not break anything for a browser that does not handle the metadata, but adds a benefit to everyone where it works.