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Dear all, I have imported a dataset from Stata using the foreign package. The original data contain French characters such as è and ç . After importing, string variables containing names of French departments have changed. E.g. Ardèche became Ard\x8fche. I would like to ask how I could plot these changed strings, since now the strings with special characters fail to be printed in the plot (either using plot() or ggplot2()). I have googled for solutions, but actually find it hard to determine whether I should change my R setup or should read in th...