readr::read_csv issue: Chinese Character becomes messy codes

Question

I\'m trying to import a dataset to RStudio, however I am stuck with Chinese characters, as they become messy codes. Here is the code:

library(tidyverse)
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Answer 1

This is because that the characters are marked as UTF-8 whereas the actual encoding is the system default (you can get by stringi::stri_enc_get()).

So, you can do either:

1) Read data with the correct encoding:

df <- read_csv("中文,英文\n英文,德文", locale = locale(encoding = stringi::stri_enc_get()))

2) Read data with the incorrect encoding and mark them with the correct encoding later (note that this does not always work):

df <- read_csv("中文,英文\n英文,德文")
df <- dplyr::mutate_all(df, `Encoding<-`, value = "unknown")