latinize: Latinization

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Latinization

Description

Helper tool to transliterate various encodings to latin. Attempts to convert a character vector from its current encoding to "latin1" and - if it fails - defaults back to the original term. This can be useful for geocode and structured when attempting to geocode terms containing symbols that photon does not support.

Usage

latinize(x, encoding = "latin1")

Arguments

x	A character vector.
encoding	Encoding that the strings in x should be converted to. If the conversion fails, defaults back to the original encoding. Defaults to "latin1".

Value

The transliterated vector of the same length as x. NAs are avoided.

Examples

# converts fancy apostrophes to normal ones
latinize("Luatuanu\u2019u")

# does nothing
latinize("Berlin")

# also does nothing, although it would fail with `iconv`
latinize("\u0391\u03b8\u03ae\u03bd\u03b1")

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