[R] charToRaw("Œ") is not 8C in R console

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 13/12/2013 07:59, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On 13/12/2013 07:03, 水静流深 wrote:
>> in http://www.ascii-code.com/, you can see the the hex value of Å’ is 8C,
>
> I don't see that: that is two characters and they are C5 and 92 in that
> table.  8C is a AE ligature, there.

Typo: OE as in your subject line.

>
> And what the 'hex value' is depends on the locale: see the preamble of
> that table (which seems to assume everyone uses CP1252): you have not
> stated yours.
>
>> why in my R console ?
>> charToRaw("Å’")
>>   [1] c5 92
>>   is not 8C ?
>
> Because R is better at looking up hex values than you are.
>
> I get
>
>  > charToRaw("Å’")
> [1] c3 85 e2 80 99
>
> in UTF-8 (as will almost everyone not using Windows).
>


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