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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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.

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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