On Nov 23, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to discuss a infelicity/possible bug with gsub. Take the
> following function:
>
> f <- function(x) {
> gsub("\u{A0}", " ", gsub(" ", "\u{A0}", x))
> }
>
> As you might expect, in utf-8 locales it is idempotent:
>
> S
Hi all,
I'd like to discuss a infelicity/possible bug with gsub. Take the
following function:
f <- function(x) {
gsub("\u{A0}", " ", gsub(" ", "\u{A0}", x))
}
As you might expect, in utf-8 locales it is idempotent:
Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "UTF-8")
f("x y")
# [1] "x y"
But in the C locale it
