I am doing some web scraping of names into a dataframe For a name

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Asked: May 30, 20262026-05-30T15:43:50+00:00 2026-05-30T15:43:50+00:00

I am doing some web scraping of names into a dataframe

For a name such as “Tomáš Rosický, I get a result “TomÃ¡Å¡ RosickÃ½”

I tried

Encoding("TomÃ¡Å¡ RosickÃ½") #  with latin1 response

but was not sure where to go from there to get the original name with accents back. Played around with iconv without success

I would be satisfied (and might even prefer) an output of “Tomas Rosicky”

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-30T15:43:51+00:00

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You’ve read in a page encoded in UTF-8. if x is your column of names, use Encoding(x) <- "UTF-8".

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