I need to enter non-english text data into R, but symbols åäöü gets substituted with wierd symbols like †.
Does R support reading character strings from alternative alphabets?
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[Unicode](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Unicode/Unicode.pdf) package for R should help you. – Shawn Mehan Aug 08 '15 at 17:18
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6If I type `x <- c("åäöü")` my R does not convert letters to weird symbols. Maybe it is a matter of encoding. What does `Sys.getlocale()` gives to you? – SabDeM Aug 08 '15 at 17:19
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R has support for Unicode. RStudio not picking the encoding I'm telling it to use when reading a file
Set your preferences in RStudio using the instructions from the link above.
Functions like read.csv and readLines have encoding options where you can specify something like "UTF-8".
iconv also exists to convert between encodings. There is also an extensive stringi library dedicated to string manipulation.
