tests/testthat/test-source.R

In testthat: Unit Testing for R

test_that("source_file always uses UTF-8 encoding", {
  has_locale <- function(l) {
    has <- TRUE
    tryCatch(
      withr::with_locale(c(LC_CTYPE = l), "foobar"),
      warning = function(w) has <<- FALSE,
      error = function(e) has <<- FALSE
    )
    has
  }

  ## Some text in UTF-8
  tmp <- tempfile()
  on.exit(unlink(tmp), add = TRUE)
  utf8 <- as.raw(c(
    0xc3, 0xa1, 0x72, 0x76, 0xc3, 0xad, 0x7a, 0x74, 0xc5, 0xb1, 0x72, 0xc5,
    0x91, 0x20, 0x74, 0xc3, 0xbc, 0x6b, 0xc3, 0xb6, 0x72, 0x66, 0xc3, 0xba,
    0x72, 0xc3, 0xb3, 0x67, 0xc3, 0xa9, 0x70
  ))
  writeBin(c(charToRaw("x <- \""), utf8, charToRaw("\"\n")), tmp)

  run_test <- function(locale) {
    if (has_locale(locale)) {
      env <- new.env()
      withr::with_locale(
        c(LC_CTYPE = locale),
        source_file(tmp, env = env, wrap = FALSE)
      )
      expect_equal(Encoding(env$x), "UTF-8")
      expect_equal(charToRaw(env$x), utf8)
    }
  }

  ## Try to read it in latin1 and UTF-8 locales
  ## They have diffefent names on Unix and Windows
  run_test("en_US.ISO8859-1")
  run_test("en_US.UTF-8")
  run_test("English_United States.1252")
  run_test("German_Germany.1252")
  run_test(Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE"))
})