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

[Tal Galili]

I am bumping this question in the hopes that someone might be able to
advise.
This Hebrew and R business is not as smooth as I had hoped...

Thanks,
Tal

Older massage:

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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