Special characters as question mark in parquet files in R

[Vidaringa]

Hello.
I'm new to the arrow package in R and I'm having a trouble regarding special characters (Icelandic). I have a large data set and everything is fine until I write the file to disk and read it in again (i.e. I use write_parquet() and then read_parquet()). When I read the data back in to R special characters turn into question mark. I.e. Veitingastaðir becomes Veitingasta�ir. This does not happen when I use .csv.

Is there anything I can do when I write the .parquet file to disk or when I read it in?

[wesm]

Sounds like a bug related to UTF-8 handling. Can you please open a JIRA issue?

[Vidaringa]

I'll do that.