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remove_non_utf8

Removes non-UTF-8 characters

Removes non-UTF-8 characters in a given character vector.

remove_non_utf8(x)

`x`	A character vector.

A character vector of strings without non-UTF-8 characters.

non_utf8 <- 'fa\xE7ile'
  Encoding(non_utf8) <- 'latin1'
  remove_non_utf8(non_utf8)

Utilities Powering the Globe and Mail's Data Journalism Template

v0.1.1

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Tom Cardoso [aut, cre] (creator and maintainer), Michael Pereira [ctb], The Globe and Mail Inc. [cph]

Initial release