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...CHARSXP, rules exists to adjust the read string for string encoding. Q1. I couldn't find where the encoding of the elements of the string vector are written? Is it when writeItem writes out the attributes of the item? But i couldn't find encoding in the attributes field x <- "fa\xE7ile" Encoding(x) <- "latin1" xx <- iconv(x, "latin1", "UTF-8") y=c(x,xx) attributes(y) NULL Apologies if this has been asked before Regards Saptarshi [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...indows in R-devel. Code below yields different results on R 4.0.0 and R-devel (2020-05-22 r78545). I haven't found any info about that change in NEWS. Was the change intentional? Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE","C") Sys.setlocale("LC_COLLATE","C") x1 = "fa\xE7ile" Encoding(x1) = "latin1" x2 = iconv(x1, "latin1", "UTF-8") base::order(c(x2,x1,x1,x2)) Encoding(x2) = "unknown" base::order(c(x2,x1,x1,x2)) # R 4.0.0 base::order(c(x2,x1,x1,x2)) #[1] 1 4 2 3 Encoding(x2) = "unknown" base::order(c(x2,x1,x1,x2))...

...ng it in just in case. Anyway, with the environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS set as above, the process gets through configure and make successfully, but fails 'make check' trying to do a conversion to "latin1" > ## x is intended to be in latin1 > x <- "fa\xE7ile" > Encoding(x) [1] "unknown" > Encoding(x) <- "latin1" > x [1]Error: unsupported conversion Execution halted ldd -s bin/exec/R confirms that R gets it's iconv from /usr/local/ apps/libiconv-1.11/lib/libiconv.so.2 as expected ldd -s bin/exec/R [snip]...