[R] Non-ACSII characters in R on Windows

[Maxim Linchits]

Have any of the thread participants sent a bug report to R? If not,
let me know if you intend to so so. Otherwise, I'll send a report
myself.

thanks

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13-09-17 8:15 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
>>
>> Le lundi 16 septembre 2013 à 20:04 +0400, Maxim Linchits a écrit :
>>>
>>> Here is that old post:
>>>
>>> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/read-csv-and-FileEncoding-in-Windows-version-of-R-2-13-0-td3567177.html
>>>
>>> A taste: "Again, the issue is that opening this UTF-8 encoded file
>>> under R 2.13.0 yields an error, but opening it under R 2.12.2 works
>>> without any issues. (...)"
>>
>> I have tried with R 2.12.2 both 32 and 64 bit on Windows Server 2008
>> with the French (CP1252) locale, and I still experience an error with
>> the test case I provided in previous messages. So it does not sound like
>> it is the same issue.
>
>
>
> I can reproduce the error with a file sent to me by Maxim.  From a quick
> look, I suspect that changes will be needed to read.table to handle this,
> and they'll be large enough that they won't make it into 3.0.2, but
> hopefully will go into R-patched after the release.
>
> Duncan Murdoch