[Rd] Bug Report: read.table with UTF-8 encoded file imports infinity symbol as Integer 8

[peter dalgaard]

Fortune nomination...

> On 8 Feb 2019, at 13:07 , Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera using gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is caused by Windows "best fit" default behavior in conversion of unicode characters to characters in the current native encoding: at some point in the past, 8 has been chosen as a good fit for infinity in Windows.

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