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...the problem, IMHO. Let me show you what I mean. (All output from R 3.5 r73238, see sessionInfo at the end) > Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE") [1] "German_Germany.1252" > x <- c("?", "?", "?", "?") > sapply(x, charToRaw) \u0080 \u009e \u009a? ? 80 9e 9a fc "?", "?", "?" serve as examples in the 80-9F range of CP1252. I also show the "?" just as an example of a non-ASCII character outside that range (and because Patrick Perry used it in his bug report which might be a (slightly) differ...

...w you what I mean. (All output from R 3.5 r73238, see > sessionInfo at the end) > > > Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE") > [1] "German_Germany.1252" > > x <- c("?", "?", "?", "?") > > sapply(x, charToRaw) > \u0080 \u009e \u009a ? > 80 9e 9a fc > > "?", "?", "?" serve as examples in the 80-9F range of CP1252. I also > show the "?" just as an example of a non-ASCII character outside that > range (and because Patrick Perry used it in his bug report which might...

Thank you!. My apologies again for not including the console output in my message before. I sent another e-mail with the output in the meantime, so it should be a bit clearer now, what I am seeing. In case I missed something, please let me know. Yes, I am using latin1 and cp1252 interchangebly here, mostly because Encoding() is reporting the encoding as "latin1". You presumed correctly