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..._CTYPE encoding (using Rf_translateChar()), and then translate to UTF-8 in a second step (using custom means, if needed), being able to do this conversion in a single step would be more elegant, and also potentially avoid expensive recoding steps. Alternatively, having access to the IS_UTF8 and IS_LATIN1 macros from C would be good enough to hand-code efficient conversion to UTF-8 (but may be too close to the internals). Not sure, whether this is considered important enough to warant inclusion in the API, but I just wanted to throw in the idea in time. Regards Thomas Friedrichsmeier ----------...