translateChar in NewName in bind.c

I see another thing in function 'NewName' in bind.c. In
else if (*CHAR(tag)) ,
'ans' is basically copied from 'tag'. Could the whole thing there be just the following?
ans = tag;
It seems to me that it can also replace
ans = R_BlankString;
in 'else'; so,
else if (*CHAR(tag))
and
else
can be merged to be just
else .

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  Subject: translateChar in NewName in bind.c
  To: r-devel at r-project.org
  Date: Saturday, 10 June, 2017, 9:14 PM
  
  In function 'NewName' in bind.c (https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/main/bind.c), in
  else if (*CHAR(base)) ,
  'translateChar' is used. Should it be
  'translateCharUTF8' instead? The end result is marked as
  UTF-8:
  mkCharCE(cbuf, CE_UTF8)
  Other cases already use
  'translateCharUTF8'.