unicode conversion and export in R

Question

I have created a script below for converting unicode into chinese characters, the last string in temp.df[,\"name_unicode\"] is \"§®£\" (without quote), so that

Answer 1

Using a binary writing will work for your case. The following is a small sample code to do.

writeUtf8csv <- function(x, file) {
  con <- file(file, "wb")
  apply(x, 1, function(a) {
      b <- paste(paste(a, collapse=','), '\r\n', sep='')
      writeBin(charToRaw(b), con, endian="little")
    })
  close(con)
}

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