For the record, this was a bug introduced here:
https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/1c149eddee9c6d4b87a987a964a611bf8fe43a74
and fixed today here:
https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/ec0761e63598d38eb5e8ab3fb995da06ab5c91ee
G.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 2:52 PM Gábor Csárdi wrote:
>
> Which
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"
>