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Reputation: 1998

Random symbols in Source window instead of Russian characters in RStudio

I have been googling and stackoverflowing (yes, that is the word now) on how to fix the problem with wrong encoding. However, I could not find the solution.

I am trying to load .Rmd file with UTF-8 encoding which basically has Russian characters in it. They do not show properly. Instead, the code lines in the Source window look like so:

the random symbols are Russian characters (1) the random symbols are Russian characters (2)

Initially, I created this .Rmd file long ago on my previous laptop. Now, I am using another one and I cannot spot the issue here.

I have already tried to use some Sys.setlocale() commands with no success whatsoever.

I run RStudio on Windows 10.

Edited

This is the output of readBin('raw[1].Rmd', raw(), 10000). Slice from 2075 to 2211:

[2075] 64 31 32 2c 20 71 68 35 20 3d 3d 20 22 d0 a0 d1 9a d0 a0 d0 88 d0 a0 
e2 80 93 d0 a0 d0 8e d0 a0 d1 99
[2109] d0 a0 d1 9b d0 a0 e2 84 a2 22 29 3b 20 64 31 32 6d 24 71 68 35 20 3d 
20 4e 55 4c 4c 0d 0a 64 31 35 6d
[2143] 20 3d 20 66 69 6c 74 65 72 28 64 31 35 2c 20 74 68 35 20 3d 3d 20 22 
d0 a0 d1 9a d0 a0 d0 88 d0 a0 e2
[2177] 80 93 d0 a0 d0 8e d0 a0 d1 99 d0 a0 d1 9b d0 a0 e2 84 a2 22 29 3b 20 
64 31 35 6d 24 74 68 35 20 3d 20

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 315

Answers (1)

user2554330
user2554330

Reputation: 44808

Windows doesn't have very good support for UTF-8. Likely your local encoding is something else.

RStudio normally reads files using the system encoding. If that is wrong, you can use "File | Reopen with encoding..." to re-open the file using a different encoding.

Edited to add:

The first line of the sample output looks like UTF-8 encoding with some Cyrillic letters, but not Russian-language text. I decode it as "d12, qh5 == \"РњРЈР–РЎРљ". Is that what RStudio gave you when you re-opened the file, declaring it as UTF-8?

Upvotes: 1

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