sjis2utf8: Wrapper of iconv for Japanese encoding
In Nippon: Japanese Utility Functions and Data

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

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

`x`	A character vecter
`CP932`	logical. If you like to use Shift-JIS instread of CP932, set `CP932 = FALSE`. The default is TRUE

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.

A character vector

Susumu Tanimura aruminat@gmail.com

iconv and localeToCharset.

1 2	x <- iconv(zenkaku$upper, from="UTF-8", to="CP932") sjis2utf8(x)

Loading required package: stringr
[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>"