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statsNoob
statsNoob

Reputation: 1355

character encoding changes in R

I have received some data that contains some Russian characters and has been converted to some encodings like 

<U+041D>

Is there a function to convert these back to UTF-8 so that they will display the characters correctly again?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 70

Answers (1)

lukeA
lukeA

Reputation: 54237

Try

as.character(parse(text = shQuote(gsub("<U\\+([A-Z0-9]+)>", "\\\\u\\1", "Bl<U+041D>"))))
# [1] "BlН"

Upvotes: 1

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