Chapter 9 Encoding issues

• Character encoding: “used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system”
  • e.g., ASCII, UTF-8
• Encoding in R Studio
  • Tools -> Global options -> Code -> Saving -> UTF-8
• Encoding issues can be hugely annoying
• Use readr() (e.g. read_csv()) to import data (less problems!)
• Relevance: Unstructured data may come with different encodings
• See below: UTF-8 is spreading but not everywhere yet…

Source: Wikipedia