When you specify LE you are overriding any useful information that the BOM could convey... see https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/370088/is-the-bom-optional-for-utf-16-and-utf-32.
?Encoding On February 28, 2024 5:44:49 AM PST, "Ebert,Timothy Aaron" <teb...@ufl.edu> wrote: >Dear R-help, > I am having trouble reading a UTF-16LE formatted file. The issue appears > to be a byte order mark at the beginning of the file. I have tried > readLines(file, encoding='utf-16LE') but got me > >[1]"\xff\xfe1" "" "" "" "" "" > > > >Regards, >Tim > > > > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
