google_places - result in Cyrillic instead of Latin alphabet

[werkstattcodes]

I am getting a result (ProCredit Banka, ПроКредит Банка) in Cyrillic rather than in Latin letters, although I have specified language as en. The result should be available in Latin, at least when checking it on maps.google.com (link).

Is there any other approach to enforce the result in Latin letters?

Many thanks!

library(googleway)

df_places_res <- google_places(
  location = c(
    44.77766,
    17.19495),
  language = "en",
  radius = 200,
  place_type = "bank",
  key = Sys.getenv("GooglePlaces_key"))

df_places_res$results$name
#> [1] "<U+041F><U+0440><U+043E><U+041A><U+0440><U+0435><U+0434><U+0438><U+0442> <U+0411><U+0430><U+043D><U+043A><U+0430>" "UniCredit Bank"               
#> [3] "Raiffeisen BANK (iPoslovnica)"

^{Created on 2022-04-06 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}

[dcooley]

does this have anything to do with the locale setting of your R sesion? what does sessionInfo() give?