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.

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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