## This takes the definition of UTF-8 as RFC3629 (2003), ## but not all software does. ## See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 x <- 1L:0x10FFFF y <- intToUtf8(x, multiple = TRUE) names(y) <- sprintf("U+%4x", x) ## values in the surrogate range: not handled in R < 3.4.3 sr <- 0xD800:0xDFFF stopifnot(is.na(y[sr])) stopifnot(!is.na(y[-sr])) ## too large values: originally handled by UTF-8, but not in RFC3629 ## R >= 3.4.3 conforms to RFC3629 stopifnot(is.na(intToUtf8(c(0x200000, 0x10FFFF + 1:10)))) ## next command is quite slow. xx <- sapply(y, function(x) tryCatch(utf8ToInt(x), error = function(e) NA_character_)) invalid <- sr # previously included 0xFFFE and 0xFFFF # but not other 'noncharacters'. stopifnot(is.na(xx[invalid]), !is.na(xx[!invalid])) stopifnot(xx[!invalid] == x[!invalid]) ## The pre-2003 UTF-8 standard converted larger code-points to 4-6 bytes, ## and was followed by intToUtf8 in earlier versions of R. ## Earlier conversion of 0x111111, 0x200001, 0x10000001) x <- c("\xf4\x91\x84\x91", "\xf8\x80\x80\x80\x81", "\xfc\x90\x80\x80\x80\x81") xx <- sapply(x, function(x) tryCatch(utf8ToInt(x), error = function(e) NA_character_)) stopifnot(is.na(xx)) # first was not in R < 3.4.3 ### test surrogate pairs surrogate_pair <- function(x) { if(any(x < 0x10000 | x > 0x10FFFF)) stop("Surrogate pairs apply only to supplementary planes") x <- x - 0x10000 as.vector(rbind(0xD800 + x %/% 1024, 0xDC00 + x %% 1024)) } ## check the example: xx <- surrogate_pair(0x10437) sprintf("%X", xx) stopifnot(xx == c(0xD801, 0xDC37)) ## there are 2^20 surrogate pairs, but fast enough to check them all x <- 0x10000:0x10FFFF x1 <- intToUtf8(x) x2 <- utf8ToInt(x1) stopifnot(x2 == x) z <- surrogate_pair(x) x1 <- intToUtf8(z, allow_surrogate_pairs = TRUE) x2 <- utf8ToInt(x1) stopifnot(x2 == x) proc.time() # ~ 9 sec