encoding {rvest} | R Documentation |
These functions help you respond to web pages that declare incorrect
encodings. You can use guess_encoding
to figure out what
the real encoding is (and then supply that to the encoding
argument of
html), or use repair_encoding
to fix character vectors after the
fact.
guess_encoding(x) repair_encoding(x, from = NULL)
x |
A character vector. |
from |
The encoding that the string is actually in. If |
These function are wrappers around tools from the fantastic stringi package, so you'll need to make sure to have that installed.
# A file with bad encoding included in the package path <- system.file("html-ex", "bad-encoding.html", package = "rvest") x <- read_html(path) x %>% html_nodes("p") %>% html_text() guess_encoding(x) # Two valid encodings, only one of which is correct read_html(path, encoding = "ISO-8859-1") %>% html_nodes("p") %>% html_text() read_html(path, encoding = "ISO-8859-2") %>% html_nodes("p") %>% html_text()