Hiya!
You can do this by specifying sub="c99" instead of "Unicode": ```R x <- "fa\xE7ile" xx <- iconv(x, "latin1", "UTF-8") iconv(xx, "UTF-8", "ASCII", "c99") ``` produces: ``` > x <- "fa\xE7ile" > xx <- iconv(x, "latin1", "UTF-8") > iconv(xx, "UTF-8", "ASCII", "c99") [1] "fa\\u00e7ile" > ``` For future reference, you can find this in section Examples of the help page ?iconv I hope this helps! On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 3:09 PM Adrian Dușa <dusa.adr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear list, > > Building on the example from ?iconv: > x <- "fa\xE7ile" > xx <- iconv(x, "latin1", "UTF-8") # "façile" > > and: > > iconv(xx, "UTF-8", "ASCII", "Unicode") > # "fa<U+00E7>ile" > > This is the type of result I sometimes get from an R script that I cannot > reproduce here, because it depends on a terminal process started in a > compiled Electron (Node.js) application, under MacOS. > > I was wondering, is there a standard way, perhaps also using iconv(), to > convert this type of result to a more manageable unicode representation? > > Something like: "fa\u00e7ile" > > Or perhaps a clever regexp, for any number of such occurrences in a string? > > Thanks a lot in advance, > Adrian > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
