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2014 Dec 11
3
SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding when parse():ing code?
...byte sequence. So, technically
this does not happen for all comments using acute accents, but it's
very likely. More generally, a multi-byte UTF-8 sequence is expected
when byte pattern "11xxxxx" (>= 192 in decimal values) is encountered.
Looking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859, there are several
characters with this bit pattern for many "Latin-N" encodings, which
I'd assume is still in dominant use by many developers.
So, since options(encoding="UTF-8") was set at startup, that is also
the encoding that R tries to follow. My suggestion is that i...
2014 Dec 11
0
SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding when parse():ing code?
...technically
> this does not happen for all comments using acute accents, but it's
> very likely. More generally, a multi-byte UTF-8 sequence is expected
> when byte pattern "11xxxxx" (>= 192 in decimal values) is encountered.
> Looking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859, there are several
> characters with this bit pattern for many "Latin-N" encodings, which
> I'd assume is still in dominant use by many developers.
>
> So, since options(encoding="UTF-8") was set at startup, that is also
> the encoding that R tries to follow....