True but I was hoping someone could point me where in the source code this
happens.

Cheers
Saptarshi
On Feb 3, 2014 3:37 AM, "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.duncan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14-02-03 3:41 AM, Saptarshi Guha wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was reading through serialize.c and i couldn't answer something.
>>
>> In readItem, case CHARSXP,  rules exists to adjust the read string for
>> string encoding.
>>
>
> This is described in the R Internals manual.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>> Q1. I couldn't find where the encoding of the elements of the string
>> vector
>> are written? Is it when writeItem writes out the attributes of the item?
>> But i couldn't find encoding in the attributes field
>>
>>   x <- "fa\xE7ile"
>> Encoding(x) <- "latin1"
>>   xx <- iconv(x, "latin1", "UTF-8")
>> y=c(x,xx)
>> attributes(y)
>>
>> NULL
>>
>> Apologies if this has been asked before
>> Regards
>> Saptarshi
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