[R] writing character to a file in UTF-8

[Wee-Jin Goh]

Hello,

Have a look at the function iconv, which converts a character vector  
from one encoding to another.

If you're not interested in converting from one encoding to another,  
and just want any character vector to be encoded as UTF-8, open the  
file in the following way, passing encoding="UTF-8".

fd <- file("My File", "w", encoding="UTF-8")

I know this works under Mac OS X and on Linux. I don't see why it  
shouldn't work on Windows too.

Wee-Jin

On 23 Nov 2006, at 11:45, ronggui wrote:

> Dear lister,
>
> I would like to now if there a universal way to writing a character
> vector to a file in UTF-8 encoding? By " universal", I mean a way
> which works under Linux, Windows and Mac.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -- 
> Ronggui Huang
> Department of Sociology
> Fudan University, Shanghai, China
>
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