Encoding weirdness

oe <- "\234"
oe

## [1] "œ"

Encoding(oe)

## [1] "latin1"

charToRaw(oe)

## [1] 9c

enc2utf8(oe)

## [1] "<U+009C>"

Encoding(oe) <- "unknown"
enc2utf8(oe)

## [1] "œ"