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Removing Ï.., I and two dots or umlaut, when using read.csv in R

Here’s something I used to bump in a lot when working with external files that I receive from clients: some gibberish prepended to the first column name of a data frame when using read.csv. However, there’s a good reason why this happens. The first character is a magical character, invisible…