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...l storage format used in Qt QStrings). This needs to be done independent of the current locale, and the encoding used in the embedded R process. I imagine other graphical or non-graphical toolkits will similarly use UTF-8 to store strings, internally. For this reason, an addition of e.g. char* Rf_translateCharToUTF8(SEXP); would be nice. This function would translate to UTF-8 independently of the current LC_CTYPE. While it is possible to achieve the same effect by first translating the strings to the current LC_CTYPE encoding (using Rf_translateChar()), and then translate to UTF-8 in a second step (using...