R function: charToRaw

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#    The encoding of this source file is UTF-8.
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#    If it were latin-1, the parser(?) would throw the error
#       invalid multibyte character in parser at line …
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charToRaw('René')

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#    Because the source file is in UTF-8, the
#    bytes of René are reported to be (c3 a9 = é)
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#       [1] 52 65 6e c3 a9
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