I think it could be very useful the possibility to specify the encoding, as when you use the function 'file' with read.table .
Michele Il giorno 14/set/2013 22:33, "Matthew Dowle" <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Sorry again - nope hadn't given UTF-8 any thought. > > Matthew > > On 14/09/13 20:57, Harish wrote: > > Does fread() support UTF-8? I got a text file that is mostly Latin-1 > characters but encoded as UTF-8. When I load the data, the first column > name has a few extra characters in the beginning ("id"), but I do not > get this when I convert the same file to ANSI format using Windows Notepad. > > I am guessing that UTF-8 encoding puts a few extra characters in the > beginning of the text file to indicate that it is an UTF-8 encoding, and > fread() is reading that literally as the first column name. > > Thanks for the clarification. > > Regards, > Harish > > > _______________________________________________ > datatable-help mailing > [email protected]https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help > > > > _______________________________________________ > datatable-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help >
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