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 the currently used default encoding.
Usage¶
stri_enc_set(enc)
stri_enc_get()
Arguments¶
|
single string; character encoding name, see stri_enc_list for the list of supported encodings. |
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). 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 neither a superset of ASCII, nor an 8-bit encoding, a warning will be generated, see stringi-encoding for discussion.
stri_enc_set
has no effect if the system ICU assumes that the default charset is always UTF-8 (i.e., where the internal U_CHARSET_IS_UTF8
is defined and set to 1), see stri_info.
Value¶
stri_enc_set
returns a string with previously used character encoding, invisibly.
stri_enc_get
returns a string with current default character encoding.
See Also¶
Other encoding_management: about_encoding, stri_enc_info(), stri_enc_list(), stri_enc_mark()