How to detect the right encoding for read.csv?

Question

I have this file (http://b7hq6v.alterupload.com/en/) that I want to read in R with read.csv. But I am not able to detect the correct encoding. It seems to be a

Answer 1

This file has UTF-16LE encoding with BOM (byte order mark). You probably should use encoding = "UTF-16LE"