enc: Portable Tools for 'UTF-8' Character Data

Implements an S3 class for storing 'UTF-8' strings, based on regular character vectors. Also contains routines to portably read and write 'UTF-8' encoded text files, to convert all strings in an object to 'UTF-8', and to create character vectors with various encodings.

See also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/krlmlr/enc

• Report bugs at https://github.com/krlmlr/enc/issues