toUTF8

Syntax

toUTF8(str, encode)

Arguments

str is a string scalar/vector.

encode is a string indicating the original encoding name. It must use lowercase.

Details

Change the encoding of strings to UTF-8.

For the Windows version, encode can only be “gbk”.

Examples

$ toUTF8("DolphinDB","gbk");
DolphinDB

$ toUTF8(["hello","world"],"euc-cn");
["hello","world"]