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2012 Jan 30
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Getting htmlParse to work with Hebrew? (on windows)
Hello dear R-help mailing list.
I wish to be able to have htmlParse work well with Hebrew, but it keeps to
scramble the Hebrew text in pages I feed into it.
For example:
# why can't I parse the Hebrew correctly?
library(RCurl)
library(XML)
u = "http://humus101.com/?p=2737"
a = getURL(u)
a # Here - the hebrew is fine.
a2 <- htmlParse(a)
a2 # Here it is a mess...
None of these seem to fix it:
htmlParse(a, encoding = "utf-8")
htmlParse(a, encoding = "iso8859-8")
This is my locale:
> Sys.getlocale()
[1] "LC_COLLATE=H...