> On 07 Jul 2016, at 18:15 , Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Right - I'm aware of that. But to me, it doesn't seem correct to > print a string that is not a valid R string. Why is an unknown > encoding printed like UTF-8? >
It isn't -- no UTF-8 would have the \xbf. I may be flogging a dead horse, but it seems to me that there are three alternatives: - refuse the input (x <- "\xc9\x82\xbf" gives "sorry, not a UTF-8 string" or so) - refuse to print it (print(x) gives "cannot print non-UTF-8 string") - what happens now and a fourth one might be to actually allow mixing of \u0007 and \x07 and \007, but I suspect that there are demons down the line which is why it is not happening now. (Does it ring a bell with anyone?) -pd -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
