CRAN Recipes: DPLYR, Stringr, Lubridate, and RegEx in R

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W. YarberryCRAN Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6876-6_11

11. Unicode

William Yarberry¹  

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Kingwood, TX, USA

 

11.1 The World of ASCII, UTF-8, Latin-1, and All the Rest

ASCII coding is familiar to most of us. Unfortunately, ASCII is the exception—a simple, plain, “white bread” version of the character world. Latin-1 is less commonly used. Other representations of characters depend on the standard selected, which in turn may depend on the locale. As an example, consider the trademark sign. In MS Word and other MS Office applications, Ctrl-Alt-T or Alt8482 will create the trademark sign: ™. In Unicode, it is \u2122 or outside R is U+2122. In HTML Hex, ...