From 976017c5408cc599dbdc3c05e40c3532cc1ad188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Jeworutzki <sebastian.jeworutzki@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 10:30:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] change default encoding to utf-8

---
 R/read.R          | 2 +-
 man/read.dta13.Rd | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/R/read.R b/R/read.R
index 2f11a2c1..5ac0b9a9 100644
--- a/R/read.R
+++ b/R/read.R
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 #' @importFrom stats na.omit 
 #' @export
 read.dta13 <- function(file, convert.factors = TRUE, generate.factors=FALSE,
-                       encoding = localeToCharset()[1], fromEncoding=NULL,
+                       encoding = "UTF-8", fromEncoding=NULL,
                        convert.underscore = FALSE, missing.type = FALSE,
                        convert.dates = TRUE, replace.strl = TRUE,
                        add.rownames = FALSE, nonint.factors=FALSE) {
diff --git a/man/read.dta13.Rd b/man/read.dta13.Rd
index 1ed731df..c3e687e0 100644
--- a/man/read.dta13.Rd
+++ b/man/read.dta13.Rd
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 \title{Read Stata Binary Files}
 \usage{
 read.dta13(file, convert.factors = TRUE, generate.factors = FALSE,
-  encoding = localeToCharset()[1], fromEncoding = NULL,
-  convert.underscore = FALSE, missing.type = FALSE, convert.dates = TRUE,
-  replace.strl = TRUE, add.rownames = FALSE, nonint.factors = FALSE)
+  encoding = "UTF-8", fromEncoding = NULL, convert.underscore = FALSE,
+  missing.type = FALSE, convert.dates = TRUE, replace.strl = TRUE,
+  add.rownames = FALSE, nonint.factors = FALSE)
 }
 \arguments{
 \item{file}{\emph{character.} Path to the dta file you want to import.}