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The utf8 Package
Description
UTF-8 Text Processing
Details
Functions for manipulating and printing UTF-8 encoded text:
-
as_utf8
attempts to convert character data to UTF-8, throwing an error if the data is invalid; -
utf8_valid
tests whether character data is valid according to its declared encoding; -
utf8_normalize
converts text to Unicode composed normal form (NFC), optionally applying case-folding and compatibility maps; -
utf8_encode
encodes a character string, escaping all control characters, so that it can be safely printed to the screen; -
utf8_format
formats a character vector by truncating to a specified character width limit or by left, right, or center justifying; -
utf8_print
prints UTF-8 character data to the screen; -
utf8_width
measures the display width of UTF-8 character strings (many emoji and East Asian characters are twice as wide as other characters); -
output_ansi
andoutput_utf8
test for the output connections capabilities.
For a complete list of functions, use library(help = "utf8")
.
Author(s)
Patrick O. Perry