localeToCharset {utils} | R Documentation |
This functions aims to find a suitable coding for the locale named, by default the current locale, and if it is a UTF-8 locale a suitable single-byte encoding.
localeToCharset(locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE"))
locale |
character string naming a locale. |
The operation differs by OS.
Locale names are normaly like es_MX.iso88591
. If final
component indicates an encoding and it is not utf8
we just need
to look up the equivalent encoding name. Otherwise, the language
(here es
) is used to choose a primary or fallback encoding.
In the C
locale the answer will be "ASCII"
.
A character vector naming an encoding and possibly a fallback
single-encoding, NA
if unknown.
The encoding names are those used by libiconv
, and ought also
to work with glibc
but maybe not with commercial Unixen.
Sys.getlocale
, iconv
.
localeToCharset()