I made the parsing completely UTF-8 compliant, so you don't have to worry about differences between Windows and Mac regarding the names of the municipalities.
Regarding the emojis: Trying to put graphical information in a text based file that will be interpreted very differently depending on the operating system and the available character set, is a bad idea imho. I'd code this in something any text editor can read, and use a proper graphic tool (possibly RMarkdown) to add symbols.
I made the parsing completely UTF-8 compliant, so you don't have to worry about differences between Windows and Mac regarding the names of the municipalities.
Regarding the emojis: Trying to put graphical information in a text based file that will be interpreted very differently depending on the operating system and the available character set, is a bad idea imho. I'd code this in something any text editor can read, and use a proper graphic tool (possibly RMarkdown) to add symbols.