For the record, this was a bug introduced here: https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/1c149eddee9c6d4b87a987a964a611bf8fe43a74 and fixed today here: https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/ec0761e63598d38eb5e8ab3fb995da06ab5c91ee
G. On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 2:52 PM Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Which is not necessarily bad news. :) > > I wonder if this was intended, because I did not find anything about > it in the news file. It also breaks a couple of R packages, e.g. desc, > probably more. > > Is this intended? > > Thanks! > > This is R-devel from yesterday: > > > x <- "\xfc" > > Encoding(x) <- "latin1" > > charToRaw(encodeString(x)) > [1] c3 bc > > > > l10n_info() > $MBCS > [1] FALSE > > $`UTF-8` > [1] FALSE > > $`Latin-1` > [1] TRUE > > $codepage > [1] 1252 > > $system.codepage > [1] 1252 > > and this is R-4.0.4: > > > x <- "\xfc" > > Encoding(x) <- "latin1" > > charToRaw(encodeString(x)) > [1] fc > > > > l10n_info() > $MBCS > [1] FALSE > > $`UTF-8` > [1] FALSE > > $`Latin-1` > [1] TRUE > > $codepage > [1] 1252 > > $system.codepage > [1] 1252 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
