converting Unicode characters from string column in R

Asked Jul 04 '17 at 14:02

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Imported a bunch of CSV and one of the columns has what i think are Unicode chars.

something like:

PEÃ<U+0083>â<U+0080><U+0098>A
SOPEÃ<U+0083>â<U+0080><U+0098>A

Not in all rows, just some, but I've tried to convert to "human readable" chars but to no avail.

Tested this solution from SO but no success so far: unicode characters conversion in R

and this brute substitution didn't worked

 gsub('Ã<U+0083>â<U+0080><U+0098>', 'Ñ', 'PEÃ<U+0083>â<U+0080><U+0098>A')

[1] "Ã<U+0083>â<U+0080><U+0098>"

asked Jul 04 '17 at 14:02

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Have you tried adding the `encoding = "UCS-2LE"` parameter if you are using `read.csv()` to read the files? – Matt Jewett Jul 04 '17 at 19:59
Yes Matt, but no success so far. – Forge Jul 07 '17 at 08:03

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