Which is not necessarily bad news. :) I wonder if this was intended, because I did not find anything about it in the news file. It also breaks a couple of R packages, e.g. desc, probably more.
Is this intended? Thanks! This is R-devel from yesterday: > x <- "\xfc" > Encoding(x) <- "latin1" > charToRaw(encodeString(x)) [1] c3 bc > > l10n_info() $MBCS [1] FALSE $`UTF-8` [1] FALSE $`Latin-1` [1] TRUE $codepage [1] 1252 $system.codepage [1] 1252 and this is R-4.0.4: > x <- "\xfc" > Encoding(x) <- "latin1" > charToRaw(encodeString(x)) [1] fc > > l10n_info() $MBCS [1] FALSE $`UTF-8` [1] FALSE $`Latin-1` [1] TRUE $codepage [1] 1252 $system.codepage [1] 1252 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
