Re: [Rd] encodeString converts to UTF-8 on Windows R-devel

2021-04-09 Thread Gábor Csárdi
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

[Rd] encodeString converts to UTF-8 on Windows R-devel

2021-03-05 Thread Gábor Csárdi
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" >