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:

<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>

I would like to turn it into a readable format, which in this case is Myanmar language, so something that looks a little like this:

၂၀၂၀မွာတိုင္းျ

Strangely, the text in this data used to be readable in RStudio, but at some point -- I don't know when -- this changed and I can only see the Unicode characters now. I have tried these solutions with no success.

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:

၂၀၂၀ မွာ

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