This function tries to resolve typical encoding problems when importing web data on Windows. Typical problems occur with pound and emdash (-), especially when these originated in MS-Word.
fix_common_encoding_problems(x, encoding = localeToCharset())A character vector
A character string describing the encoding of x.  Defaults to the current locale.  See also iconvlist()
Other Functions to clean data: encToInt,
  fix_levels_01_spss,
  has_dont_know, intToEnc,
  leveltest,
  remove_all_dont_know,
  remove_dont_know