On 14-01-21 5:41 PM, Sandip Nandi wrote:
Hi ,

I am using C interface of R . If a unicode string is read , in what format
I could pass it back to R ?
I was trying to use the following

  tpStr = ( char *)val;
  SET_STRING_ELT(innerList  , 0, mkChar(tpStr));

It does not work .

If I pass it back from as RAW format to R , what package is there to read
it ? I mean package for interpreting RAW data .

There are a number of encodings for Unicode. Most Unix systems use UTF-8, Windows uses UTF-16 for some things, etc.

If your string is known to be in UTF-8 that's easiest: just use mkCharCE instead of mkChar, as described in Writing R Extensions. If it is in UTF-16 you might have more trouble because of possible embedded 0 bytes. Translate to UTF-8 first using C facilities like WideCharToMultibyte.

Duncan Murdoch

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