title: fread (data.table in R) with specification of encoding
body: <p>Could not find proper answer in previous questions and answers to my problem:
  1. I have a 2.3 GB csv file which contains 2.4 million rows of Hebrew Text, currently coded in ASCII.
  Since we are talking about big file, fread would be preferable but what about the encoding?
  Any idea how to read csv file coded in ASCII to avoid the famous "embedded nul in string" error?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>