Re: [R-pkg-devel] handling of byte-order-mark on r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang machine

2022-04-06 Thread Ivan Krylov
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 20:20:37 +0200 Tomas Kalibera wrote: > I've rewritten the paragraphs, biasing towards users who have UTF-8 > as the native encoding as this is going to be the majority. Thank you! > But the level of detail I think needs to remain as long as these > features are supported - th

Re: [R-pkg-devel] handling of byte-order-mark on r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang machine

2022-04-06 Thread Tomas Kalibera
On 4/6/22 00:02, Jeff Newmiller wrote: Thanks to the ubiquity of Excel and its misguided inclusion of BOM codes in its UTF-8 CSV format, this optimism about encoding being a corner case seems premature. There are actually multiple options in Excel for writing CSV files, and only one of them (no