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Chinese characters in html source captured by download.file() are garbled code , how to convert it readable
2 messages · Yong Wang, Henrik Bengtsson
Try with adding mode="wb" to download.file(), or just use downloadFile() of R.utils. /Henrik
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Yong Wang <wangyong1 at gmail.com> wrote:
Dear list,
I am working with R to download numerous html source code from which the
data extracted will be further processed.
The problem is the Chinese character in the html source code are all
garbled and I can't really find a way to convert them to something readable.
This problem persists on ubuntu-10 and win-7, English environment. Not try
Operating system in Chinese yet.
I know literally nothing about encoding and a comprehensive search online
does not save me from this woe.
# the code
download.file("
https://www.google.com.hk/finance/company_news?q=SHA:601857&gl=cn&num=200
",destfile="tmp.txt")
test<-readLines("tmp.txt",encoding="UTF-8")
#the garbled code in "tmp.txt" and "test" is like below
#??国??o??M?a??????????q?]?
Any help is highly appreciated.
yong
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