R: Query a Character Encoding

stri_enc_info {stringi} | R Documentation

## Query a Character Encoding

### Description

Gets basic information on a character encoding.

### Usage

    stri_enc_info(enc = NULL)

### Arguments

`enc` | `NULL` or `""` for the default encoding, or a single string with encoding name

### Details

An error is raised if the provided encoding is unknown to ICU (see `stri_enc_list` for more details).

### Value

Returns a list with the following components:

- `Name.friendly` – friendly encoding name: MIME Name or JAVA Name or ICU Canonical Name (the first of provided ones is selected, see below);

- `Name.ICU` – encoding name as identified by ICU;

- `Name.*` – other standardized encoding names, e.g., `Name.UTR22`, `Name.IBM`, `Name.WINDOWS`, `Name.JAVA`, `Name.IANA`, `Name.MIME` (some of them may be unavailable for all the encodings);

- `ASCII.subset` – is ASCII a subset of the given encoding?;

- `Unicode.1to1` – for 8-bit encodings only: are all characters translated to exactly one Unicode code point and is the translation scheme reversible?;

- `CharSize.8bit` – is this an 8-bit encoding, i.e., do we have `CharSize.min == CharSize.max` and `CharSize.min == 1`?;

- `CharSize.min` – minimal number of bytes used to represent a UChar (in UTF-16, this is not the same as UChar32)

- `CharSize.max` – maximal number of bytes used to represent a UChar (in UTF-16, this is not the same as UChar32, i.e., does not reflect the maximal code point representation size)

### See Also

Other encoding_management: `stri_enc_list()`, `stri_enc_mark()`, `stri_enc_set()`, `stringi-encoding`

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