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Asked: 2026-05-12T14:05:45+00:00

I use OS X and I am currently cooperating with a windows user and

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I use OS X and I am currently cooperating with a windows user and deploying the scripts on a linux server. We use git for version control, and I keep getting R scripts from his end where the character encoding used has mixed latin1 and utf8 encodings. So I have a couple of questions.

  1. Is there a simple to use editor for windows that handle UTF8 with more grace than Winedt that my coauthor currently uses? I use emacs, but I am having a hard time selling getting him to switch.

  2. How to set up R in Windows so that it defaults to reading and writing UTF8?

This is driving me crazy. Has anyone found a solution for it (be it in the workflow or in the software used) who cares to share?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Take a look at ?Encoding to set the encoding for specific objects.

    You might have luck with options(encoding = ) see ?options, (disclaimer, I don’t have a windows machine)

    As for editors, I haven’t heard complaints about encoding issues with Crimson editor which lists utf-8 support as a feature.

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