remove_non_utf8 {upstartr}

Removes non-UTF-8 characters

Description

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

Usage

remove_non_utf8(x)

Arguments

x

A character vector.

Value

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

Examples

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