Encodings
A character string in R is encoded in one of
The used (declared) encoding can be determined with
Encoding() which returns a character vector with one of the following values:
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"latin1"
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"UTF-8"
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"bytes"
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"unknown"
getOption('encoding')
Encoding(…)
Sys.getlocale('LC_ALL')
l10info()
enc2native(…)
enc2utf8(…)
anyString <- "Söme strängé tëxt"
# Interprete bytes in anyString as latin1
Encoding(anyString) <- 'latin1'
# Convert (hopefully natively as latin1 encoded) string to utf8
stringUTF8 <- enc2utf8(anyString)