# R: Convert to or from UTF-8-encoded Character Vectors

utf8Conversion {base} | R Documentation

## Convert to or from UTF-8-encoded Character Vectors

### Description

Conversion of UTF-8 encoded character vectors to and from integer vectors.

### Usage

    utf8ToInt(x)
    intToUtf8(x, multiple = FALSE)

### Arguments

`x` | object to be converted.
`multiple` | logical: should the conversion be to a single character string or multiple individual characters?

### Details

These will work in any locale, including on machines that do not otherwise support multi-byte character sets.

### Value

`utf8ToInt` converts a length-one character string encoded in UTF-8 to an integer vector of (numeric) UTF-8 code points.
`intToUtf8` converts a vector of (numeric) UTF-8 code points either to a single character string or a character vector of single characters. (Note that a single character string could contain embedded nuls.)

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