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R: Check If a String Contains Multibyte UTF-8 characters

anyMultibyteUTF8Characters

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Check If a String Contains Multibyte UTF-8 characters

Description

This function is used by tikzDevice to check if an incoming string contains multibyte UTF-8 characters

Usage

anyMultibyteUTF8Characters(string, encoding = "UTF-8")

Arguments

`string`	A character vector of length 1 (a string).
`encoding`	The input encoding of `string`, if not specified previously via `Encoding` or by this argument then a value of "UTF-8" is assumed

Details

This function searches through the characters in the given string, if any of the characters in the string are more than one byte then the function returns TRUE otherwise it returns FALSE.

The function will assume an input encoding of UTF-8 but will take any specified encoding into account and will convert from the specified encoding to UTF-8 before doing any checks

Value

A boolean value

Author(s)

Cameron Bracken cameron.bracken@gmail.com

Examples


# TRUE
anyMultibyteUTF8Characters('R is GNU Â©, but not Â®')
# FALSE
anyMultibyteUTF8Characters('R is GNU copyright but not restricted')