Printing unicode hex characters

My data contains strings with unicode hex characters like this character "En Dash", basically a hyphen.

str = "foo – bar"

Is there any way to make this print nicely in R, for example via cat()? I’ve tried a couple of unicode decoders to no effect.

>Solution :

I found that the unicode of endash is U+2013

So you can use the unicode and cat to display the endash character

message <-"foo \U2013 bar"

cat(message)