Windows encoding problem with vect()

[AGeographer]

Hi,
I have problems with the encoding of Unicode characters in Windows using the vect() function:

library(sf) 
library(terra)
# importing a geojson file as sf object 
url <- "https://data.montreal.ca/dataset/00bd85eb-23aa-4669-8f1b-ba9a000e3dd8/resource/e9b0f927-8f75-458c-8fda-b5da65cc8b73/download/limadmin.geojson" 
mtl.sf <- read_sf(url)
# convert sf object to SpatVector object 
mtl.spv <- vect(mtl.sf) 
# while 
mtl.sf$NOM # displays French letters correctly, 
mtl.spv$NOM # does not

Is there any parameter for vect() that would avoid this problem?
Thanks,
Tim

[rhijmans]

Thanks. That had annoyed me for a while, but I needed your push to fix it. The values were fine at the C++ side, they just needed to be declared as UTF-8 on the R side. I believe this is fixed now, as I get:

mtl.spv$NOM[1:15]
# [1] "Outremont"                                "LaSalle"                                 
 #[3] "Mont-Royal"                               "Ville-Marie"                             
 #[5] "Le Plateau-Mont-Royal"                    "Hampstead"                               
 #[7] "Le Sud-Ouest"                             "Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles"
 #[9] "Lachine"                                  "Dorval"                                  
#[11] "Montréal-Nord"                            "L'Île-Bizard-Sainte-Geneviève"           
#[13] "Kirkland"                                 "Dollard-des-Ormeaux"                     
#[15] "Senneville"