I have some html files (I'm working with them as plain texts) that utilize decimal NCR to encode special characters. Is there a way to convert them conveniently to Unicode using R?
NCR codes does not always have one-on-one match with unicode and it becomes quite confusing, since ѣ is equal not to \u1123, but to \u0463:
> stri_unescape_unicode("\u1123")
[1] "ᄣ"and
> stri_unescape_unicode("\u0463")
[1] "ѣ"