stringi (version 0.2-4)

stri_enc_set: Set or Get Default Character Encoding in stringi

Description

stri_enc_set sets the encoding used to re-encode strings internally (i.e. by R) declared to be in native encoding, see stringi-encoding and stri_enc_mark. stri_enc_get returns currently used default encoding.

Usage

stri_enc_set(enc)
stri_enc_get()

Arguments

enc

single string; character encoding name, see stri_enc_list for the list of supported encodings.

Value

• stri_enc_set returns a string with previously used character encoding, invisibly.

  stri_enc_get returns a string with current default character encoding.

Details

stri_enc_get is the same as stri_enc_info(NULL)$Name.friendly.

Note that changing the default encoding may have undesired consequences. Unless you are an expert user and you know what you are doing, stri_enc_set should only be used if ICU fails to detect your system's encoding correctly (while testing stringi we only encountered such a situation on a very old Solaris machine, though). Note that ICU tries to match the encoding part of the LC_CTYPE category as given by Sys.getlocale.

If you set a default encoding that is not a superset of ASCII or it is not an 8-bit encoding, a warning will be generated, see stringi-encoding for discussion.

See Also

Other encoding_management: stri_enc_info; stri_enc_list; stri_enc_mark; stringi-encoding