Dear R Developers, I noticed that `basename` and `dirname` always return "UTF-8" on Windows (tested with R-4.0.0 and R-3.6.3):
> p <- "Föö/Bär" > Encoding(p) [1] "latin1" > Encoding(dirname(p)) [1] "UTF-8" > Encoding(basename(p)) [1] "UTF-8" Is this on purpose? At least I did not find any relevant comment in the documentation of `dirname`/`basename`. Background: I'm currently struggeling with a directory name containing a latin1-character. (I know that this is a bad idea, but I did not create the directory and I cannot rename it.) I now want to pass a latin1-directory name to a function, which internally uses `tools::makeLazyLoadDB`. At that point, internally, `dirname` is called, which changes the encoding, and things break. If I use `debug` to halt the processing and "fix" the encoding, things work as expected. So, if possible, I would prefer that `dirname` and `basename` preserve the encoding. Best regards Johannes ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
