Assess if a file is UTF-8 encoded.

Assess if a file is UTF-8 encoded.

Usage

isFileUTF8(file)

Arguments

file

A name of the file or full path.

Value

A logical assessing whether there is non UTF-8 encoded characters in file

Examples

writeLines(c("Hello, world!"), "utf.txt")
writeLines(c("Hello, world!", "\xb5g/L"), "non-utf.txt")

isFileUTF8("utf.txt") #TRUE
#> [1] TRUE
isFileUTF8("non-utf.txt") #FALSE
#> [1] FALSE