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?Encoding and ?iconv:

iconv("\xc1d\xe1m", from = '', to = 'latin1')


On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Webby <mailing-list@gmx.net> wrote:

>
> Dear community,
>
> I have a problem with a string conversion:
>
> > text
>  [1] ""                   "and"                "\xc1d\xe1m"
>  [4] "graphical"          "interface"          "MLP"
>  [7] "Nagy"               "networks"           "Networks"
> [10] "neural"             "Neural"             "RBF"
> [13] "<sodzsu@yahoo.com>" "user"               "with"
> [16] "and"                "\xc1d\xe1m"         "graphical"
> [19] "interface"          "MLP"
> >
>
> I need to get rid off text[3,17] !
>
> I have this kind of control-sequence a few times in my text and I do not
> get
> rid of it, by strsplit or sub.
>
> > grep("\xc1d\xe1m",text)
> Error in grep("\xc1d\xe1m", text) :
>  regular expression is invalid in this locale
> > grep("\\xc1d\\xe1m",text)
> integer(0)
> Warning messages:
> 1: In grep("\\xc1d\\xe1m", text) :
>  input string 3 is invalid in this locale
> 2: In grep("\\xc1d\\xe1m", text) :
>  input string 17 is invalid in this locale
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Georg
>
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