stringi_trans_general issue when read from any file

[rrudra46]

I want to achieve something like: stri_trans_general('Man\u00e9', 'latin-ascii') --> "Mané" but after the contents are read from a file.

An example is as below: x = read.table("file.txt") where the file contains this: Man\u00e9 But on stri_trans_general(x, 'latin-ascii'), I achieve this: "Man\u00e9"

[gagolews]

A call to stringi::stri_unescape_unicode() should do the trick, I reckon.

[rrudra46]

It worked. Thanks. 👍