Make UTF-8 the default encoding for package metadata

[nfultz]

I recently saw a thread on R-pkg-devel where someone was struggling with errors caused by an errant Byte Order Marker in their NAMESPACE file - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark - which brought back bad memories from grad school circa 2010.

It would be nice if R defaulted to UTF 8 instead. This would also be good because in DESCRIPTION, authors could then spell their names correctly with accent characters or other alphabets.

Anyone that actually needed an alternative encoding could still declare that for their particular package.

[HenrikBengtsson]

I recently saw a thread on R-pkg-devel ...

Can you please post a link to this; lots of the issues here are around for a long time, and it increases the chances for someone to put work in if we minimize any friction. thx

[nfultz]

Thread is here https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2023q1/008811.html

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