[Rd] Support writing UTF-8 output in Windows

Sverre Stausland stausland.johnsen at iln.uio.no
Sat Nov 9 18:07:56 CET 2013


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



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