Yes, encoding is something we have not dealt with yet.
This is not high on my priority list but there are ways to alter that
list, e.g. find a way to sponsor the development of that particular
feature through funding or even crowdfunding if enough people are
interested in having the feature an
Just to follow up in case anyone other than me is using Unicode in R: Rcpp
does not support Unicode, or really any encoding other than 7 bit ascii.
Internally R marks every string with an encoding, typically UTF8, Latin1 or
ASCII. When using as Rcpp just copies the bytes over ignoring the
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