UTF-8 issues in scientificName

[peterdesmet]

We currently have scientificNames with:

2772890 134087647 Loncomelos brevistylus (Wolfner ) Dost<U+00E1>l 9ff7d317-609b-4c08-bd86-3bc404b77c42 Loncomelos brevistylum (Wolfner) Dost<U+00E1>l Plantae SYNONYM 2772885 Ornithogalum pyramidale L.

As you notice, these issues appear in the checklist_scientificName and backbone_scientificName.

• The name is displayed correctly on the webpage: https://www.gbif.org/species/134087647
• The name is displayed correctly on in the API (in my browser): https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/134087647
• The name is incorrect in the dataframe: checklist_taxa[433,3]: "Loncomelos brevistylus (Wolfner ) Dost\u00e1l"

So, must be related to how the data are read from the API (because of our own code or rgbif).

[peterdesmet]

Double checked: the name is incorrect in checklist_taxa_info[[1]]$data$scientificName[756], so definitely related to how the data are read.

[peterdesmet]

rgbif::name_usage(key = 134087647) also returns the incorrect name.

[peterdesmet]

Problem is resolved by setting:

Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "en_US.UTF-8")

Which is the same issue as: trias-project/alien-plants-belgium#41

[peterdesmet]

Fixed this with setting locale for now (967de37) so this issue can be closed. But that won't work on Windows, which is why I created a separate issue to test and discuss this at #8.