R: Check If a Data Stream Is Possibly in UTF-8

stri_enc_isutf8 {stringi} | R Documentation

## Check If a Data Stream Is Possibly in UTF-8

### Description

The function checks whether given sequences of bytes forms a proper UTF-8 string.

### Usage

    stri_enc_isutf8(str)

### Arguments

`str` | character vector, a raw vector, or a list of `raw` vectors

### Details

`FALSE` means that a string is certainly not valid UTF-8. However, false positives are possible. For instance, `(c4,85)` represents ("Polish a with ogonek") in UTF-8 as well as ("A umlaut", "Ellipsis") in WINDOWS-1250. Also note that UTF-8, as well as most 8-bit encodings, extend ASCII (note that `stri_enc_isascii` implies that `stri_enc_isutf8`).

However, the longer the sequence, the greater the possibility that the result is indeed in UTF-8 – this is because not all sequences of bytes are valid UTF-8.

This function is independent of the way R marks encodings in character strings (see Encoding and stringi-encoding).

### Value

Returns a logical vector. Its i-th element indicates whether the i-th string corresponds to a valid UTF-8 byte sequence.

### See Also

Other encoding_detection: `stri_enc_detect2()`, `stri_enc_detect()`, `stri_enc_isascii()`, `stri_enc_isutf16be()`, `stringi-encoding`

### Examples

    stri_enc_isutf8(letters[1:3])
    stri_enc_isutf8("\u0105\u0104")
    stri_enc_isutf8("\u1234\u0222")

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