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...d by the byte "\xFF": > iconv("\u044f", "UTF-8", "Windows-1251") [1] "\xff" I suspect that particular value causes trouble for the R parser, which uses a stack of previously-seen characters (include/Defn.h): LibExtern char R_ParseContext[PARSE_CONTEXT_SIZE] INI_as(""); And at various places checks whether the context character is EOF. That character is defined as #define R_EOF -1 Which, when cast to a char, is 0xFF. I suspect that your example is revealing two bugs: 1) The R parser seems to have trouble with native characters encod...

Hello, I do not have an account on R Bugzilla, so I will post my bug report here. I want to report a very old bug in base R *source()* function. It relates to sourcing some R scripts in UTF-8 encoding on Windows machines. For some reason if the UTF-8 script is containing cyrillic letter *"?"*, the script execution is interrupted directly on this letter (btw the same scripts are sourcing