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 <- "<U+1042><U+1040><U+1042><U+1040> <U+1019><U+103D><U+102C>\n\n<U+1010><U+102D><U+102F><U+1004><U+1039><U+1038><U+103B><U+1015><U+100A><U+1039><U+1000><U+102D><U+102F><U+101C><U+1032> <U+1000><U+102C><U+1000><U+103C>" 

cat(stri_unescape_unicode(gsub("<U\\+(....)>", "\\\\u\\1", string)))

Which results in:

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