Wrapper of iconv for Japanese encoding

Description

These functions are to encode Japanese characters from SJIS/JIS/EUC-JP to UTF-8.

Usage

sjis2utf8(x, CP932=TRUE)
eucjp2utf8(x)
jis2utf8(x)

Arguments

Details

The major Japanese encoding systems are Shift-JIS (CP932), JIS (ISO-2022-JP), EUC-JP, and recently UTF-8. Exchanging Japanese strings data between the different platforms is often the cause of unreadable illegal characters. Since iconv could be the solution of this issues, these functions are written for the handy use of iconv, in partifular, when importing an old dataset or from the different platform.

Value

A character vector

Author(s)

Susumu Tanimura aruminat@gmail.com

See Also

iconv and localeToCharset.

Examples

x <- iconv(zenkaku$upper, from="UTF-8", to="CP932")
sjis2utf8(x)

Results

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> library(Nippon)
Loading required package: maptools
Loading required package: sp
Checking rgeos availability: TRUE
> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_CC/result/Nippon/sjis2utf8.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: sjis2utf8
> ### Title: Wrapper of iconv for Japanese encoding
> ### Aliases: sjis2utf8 eucjp2utf8 jis2utf8
> ### Keywords: character Japanese language
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> x <- iconv(zenkaku$upper, from="UTF-8", to="CP932")
> sjis2utf8(x)
[1] "<U+FF21><U+FF22><U+FF23><U+FF24><U+FF25><U+FF26><U+FF27><U+FF28><U+FF29><U+FF2A><U+FF2B><U+FF2C><U+FF2D><U+FF2E><U+FF2F><U+FF30><U+FF31><U+FF32><U+FF33><U+FF34><U+FF35><U+FF36><U+FF37><U+FF38><U+FF39><U+FF3A>"
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> dev.off()
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