As recently discussed on Stack Overflow, R for Mac OS and Ubuntu (so probably all Unix systems) can correctly write files with UTF-8 encoding, but R for Windows cannot:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19877676/write-utf-8-files-from-r I strongly suggest that R for Windows should support this feature in upcoming versions. Sverre ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel