R devel - Feb 2014 - String Vector Encoding

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.

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

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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
>
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>
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