I am struggling at the moment with the UTF-8-BOM under one windows system and I am not sure if the problem is related to R, the operating system or something else.
System A win10; R 4.2.2
System B win server 2019; R 4.3.2
I am using a software which creates tab separated txt files which I always opened via read.delim('filename.txt') without problems.
Now, on the System B, the first column name is different and looks like ï..Parameter and all my scripts are no longer running. I figured out, that this is supposed to be the UTF-8-BOM and by reading the file with read.delim('filename.txt', fileEncoding='UTF-8-BOM') everything works as normal and the first column name is Parameter as expected.
The funny thing is, on System A, everything works normal and I can use all my scripts as usual. Even if I open the files on System B via network drive.
Can I get some advice, if this is related to operating system, general system settings or how I can figure out what the exact issue on System B is, why I now have to use that UTF-8-BOM parameter, but on the other system it is fine.