Yeah, issues like this are some of the pain's I've dealt with:
and
https://forum.posit.co/t/split-uneven-length-vectors-to-columns-with-tidyr/
which are good examples. The second illustrates just how bad it gets, as you really need to share the byte sequence to see the issue, not just the string itself.
I'm just curious if we should be using something like TERR, or if RStudio plans to implement its own flavor of R to solve these issues.