[R] Encoding problem - I fails to read Hebrew text from online

[Tal Galili]

Hello all,

# I am trying to read the text in this URL:
u <-
http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&q=%d7%a9%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%9d
# By using this command:
readLines(u)

And no matter what variation I tried, I keep getting this output:
[1] "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><toplevel><CompleteSuggestion><suggestion
data=\"&#x5E9;&#x5DC;&#x5D5;&#x5DD;\"/><   (etc...)
Instead of this output:
<?xml version="1.0"?><toplevel><CompleteSuggestion><suggestion
data="שלום"/><num_queries
int="16800000"/></CompleteSuggestion><CompleteSuggestion><suggestion 
data="שלום
חנוך"/><num_queries
int="232000"/></CompleteSuggestion><CompleteSuggestion><suggestion
data="שלום עליכם"/
(etc....)

I tried:
  readLines(u, encoding= "latin1")
  readLines(u, encoding= "UTF-8")
And also changing Sys.setlocale:
  Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "Hebrew") # must be done for Hebrew to work.
  Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "English") # must be done for Hebrew to work.

Are there any more options I could try to get this text properly encoded?

Thanks!
Tal



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