Does anyone know why this happens? I.e. why Unicode character is not displayed correctly within a data table row, but correctly when contained in a vector (data table column)?
>test.dt
>fuel box seller.name
>1: Gasoline Manual Michels S<U+00E0>rl
> test.dt[,seller.name]
>[1] "Michels Sàrl"
First make sure your locale is set correctly. Try this:
library(data.table)
Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "") # set character type locale to native
df = data.table(id = 1, name = c("Michels Sàrl"),stringsAsFactors = F)
If that doesn't work, you may be running into a known bug in R on Windows; for another instance of this bug see https://stackoverflow.com/a/46720368/6233565
For a work-around, try this:
library(corpus)
print.corpus_frame(df)
I tried the same example, it's showing normal. Please find below
library(data.table)
df = data.table(id = 1, name = c("Michels Sàrl"),stringsAsFactors = F)
>df
id name
1: 1 Michels Sàrl
