<p dir="ltr">I think it could be very useful the possibility to specify the encoding, as when you use the function 'file' with read.table .</p>
<p dir="ltr">Michele</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Il giorno 14/set/2013 22:33, "Matthew Dowle" <<a href="mailto:mdowle@mdowle.plus.com">mdowle@mdowle.plus.com</a>> ha scritto:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Sorry again - nope hadn't given UTF-8 any thought.<br>
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On 14/09/13 20:57, Harish wrote:<br>
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<div>Does fread() support UTF-8? I got a text file that is
mostly Latin-1 characters but encoded as UTF-8. When I load
the data, the first column name has a few extra characters in
the beginning ("id"), but I do not get this when I convert
the same file to ANSI format using Windows Notepad.</div>
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<div>I am guessing that UTF-8 encoding puts a few extra
characters in the beginning of the text file to indicate that
it is an UTF-8 encoding, and fread() is reading that literally
as the first column name.</div>
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<div>Thanks for the clarification.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Harish</div>
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