Thank you all for your valuable insights. The most viable workaround is a
modification to the Hadley�s line of code:
stringi::stri_escape_unicode(letters_fa) %>%
paste0("'",.,"'",collapse=',') %>%
paste0('c(',.,')')
which then, the output string could be easily copied and pasted without manual
editing. However, imagine you had to do this process to all of your English
strings that you write daily! It is not that much productive. Is it?
I think R deserves a better support for internationalization and I know this
implies fundamental revisions to the code to avoid the unecessary conversion to
a (OS) native locale; i.e. directly reading/writing as unicode.
Farid
________________________________
From: Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 2:48:17 AM
To: ONKELINX, Thierry
Cc: faridc...@gmail.com; r-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] build package with unicode (farsi) strings
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 2:11 AM Thierry Onkelinx
<thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote:
>
> Dear Farid,
>
> Try using the ASCII notation. letters_fa <- c("\u0627", "\u0641"). The full
> code table is available at https://www.utf8-chartable.de
It's a little easier to do this with code:
letters_fa <- c('���','�','�','�','�','�','�','�','�','�','�','�')
writeLines(stringi::stri_escape_unicode(letters_fa))
#> \u0627\u0644\u0641
#> \u0628
#> \u067e
#> \u062a
#> \u062b
#> \u062c
#> \u0686
#> \u062d
#> \u062e
#> \u0631
#> \u0632
#> \u062f
Hadley
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