How to remove unicode from string? [duplicate]

Answer 1

clients <- gsub("[<].*[>]", "", clients)

Answer 2

You have a $ as the first character of your expression. This matches the end of an expression, but only if it is the last character of the pattern:

> gsub("\\s*<U\\+\\w+>$", "", clients)
[1] "Greg Smith"   "John Coolman" "Mr. Brown"  

Answer 3

if you want to remove only unicode <U+2032>

clients <- c("Greg Smith <U+2032>", "John Coolman", "Mr. Brown <U+2032>")
clients <- gsub("<U\\+2032>", "", clients)
clients
# [1] "Greg Smith "   "John Coolman" "Mr. Brown "