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I am working on a project on Machine learning. When I download the .csv file, some of the features have values in an unknown format. Something like СвердловÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¾Ð±Ð»Ð°ÑÑ‚ÑŒ and Личные вещÐ. These represent the names of regions in Russia. Can anyone tell me how to convert them into plane English in R? I tried doing the following: 

df <- read.csv(file.choose(), sep = ',', header = TRUE, encoding = "russian", 
stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

Doesn't work

Sample of data:

| region | City |
|---|---|
| ÐижегородÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¾Ð±Ð»Ð°ÑÑ‚ÑŒ | КраÑнодар |
| ВоронежÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¾Ð±Ð»Ð°ÑÑ‚ÑŒ | ЧелÑбинÑк |
| ÐижегородÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¾Ð±Ð»Ð°ÑÑ‚ÑŒ | Воронеж |
| ÐижегородÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¾Ð±Ð»Ð°ÑÑ‚ÑŒ | КраÑнодар |
| КраÑноÑÑ€Ñкий край | Самара |
| РоÑтовÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¾Ð±Ð»Ð°ÑÑ‚ÑŒ | Тюмень |
Nikhil
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  • Can you share a small sample of the CSV so we can confirm the solution work before posting an answer? Thanks. – onlyphantom Apr 27 '18 at 19:44
  • Try `encoding = "UTF-8"`? – Mako212 Apr 27 '18 at 20:05
  • @onlyphantom I added a small portion of the data and @Mako212, I tried switching "russian" with "UTF-8", it didn't work, instead, my data set initially had a million instances and it returned only 80k. Also the format of these values in now something like ``. Not sure if that means something – Nikhil Apr 27 '18 at 22:48

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