[R] Converting CSV file to UTF-8 encoding

Mehdi Dadkhah mehd|d@dkh@h91 @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Wed May 6 06:29:39 CEST 2020


Thank you!
With best regards,

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 3:47 PM Richard O'Keefe <raoknz using gmail.com> wrote:

> What do you mean "ANSI"?
> Do you mean ASCII?  In that case there is nothing to be done.
> Do you mean some member of the ISO 8859 family of 8-bit character sets?
> Do you mean some Microsoft-specific code page, such as CP-1252?
> (Microsoft CP-437 and CP-1252 "ANSI" but if they have any connection
> whatever with ANSI I would appreciate being informed of it.)
> If you really do mean the ANSI Extended Latin (ANSEL) character
> set, you are out of luck.
>
> If it is supported in your environment, the easiest way is that use the
> iconv() function.  That's what it is for.  See ?iconv.
>
> But there is something easier, and that is not to.
> Just let R know what the external encoding is, and just read the file.
> If you check the documentation of read.csv, ?read.csv
> you will find the fileEncoding="..." argument.
>
> fileEncoding: character string: if non-empty declares the encoding used
>           on a file (not a connection) so the character data can be
>           re-encoded.  See the 'Encoding' section of the help for
>           'file', the 'R Data Import/Export Manual' and 'Note'.
>
> At a guess, you  want fileEncoding="WINDOWS-1252".
>
> On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 22:42, Mehdi Dadkhah <mehdidadkhah91 using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I hope you are doing well!
> > I have a CSV file which its encoding is ANSI. How can i change its
> encoding
> > to UTF-8 in R?
> > Many thanks!
> > With best regards,
> >
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