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2019 Feb 08
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Bug Report: read.table with UTF-8 encoded file imports infinity symbol as Integer 8
...here, but I used RStudio for my
examples (I should have said) and David's mentioned RStudio as well, so it
does not seem to be a problem with RGui only.
Another example for the "best fit" behaviour seems to be "?"
("\u03A3", greek capital letter sigma, not "\u2211", n-ary summation):
print("?")
#> [1] "S"
Again with cp1252 on Windows 10, R 3.5.2, RStudio 1.2.1256 preview.
> even though we could rewrite in principle all calls to Windows API to use
Unicode and have all strings in UTF-8 in R, we would still have problems
when i...
2019 Feb 08
3
Bug Report: read.table with UTF-8 encoded file imports infinity symbol as Integer 8
I can reproduce this behavior on my Windows 10 system in RGui (cp1252):
when I paste the Unicode infinity symbol into the console, it is treated
as number 8. This is caused by Windows "best fit" default behavior in
conversion of unicode characters to characters in the current native
encoding: at some point in the past, 8 has been chosen as a good fit for
infinity in Windows. In my