Convert unicode to readable characters in R

Question

I have a .csv where the encoding returns \"unknown\" and \"UTF-8\" when using Encoding(data). The text looks like this:

Answer 1

You could do something like this:

library(stringi)

string <- " \n\n " 

cat(stri_unescape_unicode(gsub("", "\\\\u\\1", string)))

Which results in:

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