True but I was hoping someone could point me where in the source code this happens.
Cheers Saptarshi On Feb 3, 2014 3:37 AM, "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14-02-03 3:41 AM, Saptarshi Guha wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I was reading through serialize.c and i couldn't answer something. >> >> In readItem, case CHARSXP, rules exists to adjust the read string for >> string encoding. >> > > This is described in the R Internals manual. > > Duncan Murdoch > > >> Q1. I couldn't find where the encoding of the elements of the string >> vector >> are written? Is it when writeItem writes out the attributes of the item? >> But i couldn't find encoding in the attributes field >> >> x <- "fa\xE7ile" >> Encoding(x) <- "latin1" >> xx <- iconv(x, "latin1", "UTF-8") >> y=c(x,xx) >> attributes(y) >> >> NULL >> >> Apologies if this has been asked before >> Regards >> Saptarshi >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel