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2014 Oct 19
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Writing UTF8 on Windows
...ms to be latin1:
> con <- file("test1.txt", open="wb", encoding = "UTF-8")
> writeLines(string, con)
> close(con)
> system("file test1.txt")
test1.txt: ISO-8859 text
> readLines("test1.txt", encoding="UTF-8")
[1] "Z\xfcrich"
I am not quite sure if this is a bug or expected. To avoid this and
other problems, jsonlite uses the 'useBytes` argument, which is
supposed to suppress re-encoding when writing to the connection. This
is exactly what we need: use enc2utf8 to convert our string to utf8
and then pass it b...