This simple function opens UTF-16 encoded delimited tables (such as Glonaf data) in R. Separator, decimal separator and other arguments can be passed to `data.table::fread` with `...`

reading_utf16_table.R

read_utf16_table <- function(path, ...) {
  stringi::stri_read_lines(
    con = path,
    encoding = "UTF-16LE") |> 
  stringi::stri_join(collapse = "\n") |> 
  data.table::fread(sep = "\t", ...)
}