> On Feb 3, 2017, at 10:12 AM, Olivier Crouzet <olivier.crou...@univ-nantes.fr>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> using R version 3.3.2 under Linux, these work perfectly (but I receive
> a correct encoding ("UTF-8"), not "unknown").
>
> What is your system (windows, mac, linux)? Your R version? Which
> interface (RStudio, Windows R interface)? There are often issues with
> character encoding using Windows (in many different programming
> languages) but it may not be the case concerning R.
I'm wondering if it's being done on a Mac, since I see the same behavior at my
console (the "standard" R.app GUI). If the issue is with reading a Windows file
while using one of the `read.*` functions, then setting the `fileEncoding`
parameter to one of 'iso-8859-1' or 'cp1252' may be attempted.
The ?Encodings page says: "ASCII strings will never be marked with a declared
encoding, since their representation is the same in all supported encodings."
Running the example in the help page (on a Mac):
> x <- "fa\xE7ile"
> Encoding(x)
[1] "unknown"
> Encoding(x) <- "latin1"
> x
[1] "façile"
> Encoding(x)
[1] "latin1"
--
David.
>
> If these operations are meant to read data from a file, you may
> alternatively consider the option fileEncoding= from read.table /
> read.csv (to change encoding) or, perhaps but I would
> suggets first trying the preceding option, encoding= (to specifically
> declare the file encoding if you know it but R does not detect it).
>
> Olivier.
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 17:29:20 +0100 Tilmann Faul
> <tilmann_f...@t-online.de> wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> this is my first question here, so forgive me if i my be clumsy.
>>
>> I want to use Encoding to set the encoding of a character vector, but
>> it doese not seem to work. See example.
>>
>>> x <- "16-03-02"
>>> Encoding(x)
>> [1] "unknown"
>>> Encoding(x) <- "latin1"
>>> Encoding(x)
>> [1] "unknown"
>>
>> Is this intended?
>> Actually i want to change encoding of a character vector generated by
>> list.file on a linux computerwith UTF-8 file encoding, rstudio
>> encoding is iso8859-15.
>> Any hints?
>>
>> best Tilmann
>>
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>
> --
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