print.tbl_df with encoding

[romainfrancois]

> x<-data_frame(name=c("\xC9lise","Pierre","Fran\xE7ois"),score=c(5,7,6) )
> x
Source: local data frame [3 x 2]

Error in nchar(values) : invalid multibyte string 2
> as.data.frame(x)
         name score
1    \xc9lise     5
2      Pierre     7
3 Fran\xe7ois     6

[krlmlr]

The issue should disappear if nchar(values) is substituted by nchar(encodeString(values)) in the code (same for names). But this encodeString looks like a costly operation even for "properly encoded" strings.

[romainfrancois]

I don't think the performance penalty is big deal here. Thanks for the hint.