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Fix text file encoding and normalize punctuation/whitespace

Source: R/fix_text_file.R
fix_text_file.Rd

Read a file as raw bytes, drop NUL characters, guess or use a provided source encoding, convert to UTF-8 and normalize common punctuation and newlines.

Usage

fix_text_file(path, from = NULL)

Arguments

path

Character scalar. Path to the text file.

from

Optional character. Source encoding to feed to iconv. If NULL the function will try to guess and fall back to WINDOWS-1252.

Value

A character scalar with cleaned text (UTF-8).