How to remove unicode from string?

Answer 1

If always is the first character, you can try:

substring("\U00A6 1000-66B29", 2)

if R prints the string as 1000-66329 instead of ¦ 1000-66B29 then is interpreted as the string "" instead of the unicode character. Then you can do:

substring("  1000-66329",9)

Both ways the result is:

[1] "  1000-66329"