R help - Dec 2010 - Can't read data coded in Cyrillic

To whom it may concern,

I have a database (an SPSS .sav file) with some vectors containing strings
of words in Cyrillic. My console, however, doesn't seem to read Cyrillics.
 If I type Привет into the console it shows  Ïðèâåò as I'm typing.  Please
note that courier new, my console's default font can encode Cyrillics
elsewhere on my computer (e.g. MSWord and Chrome, from which this email is
being sent).  Please help me to understand why R can't do this.

Thanks,
Dan

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Daniel Winetsky
MD, MS Candidate
Stanford University School of Medicine

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I suspect that R is reading the data just fine, but is not displaying it as you
want to see it.  Read the R Windows FAQ 3.3.

"Dan Winetsky" <dwinetsk at gmail.com> wrote:
>To whom it may concern,
>
>I have a database (an SPSS .sav file) with some vectors containing
>strings
>of words in Cyrillic. My console, however, doesn't seem to read
>Cyrillics.
>If I type ???????????? into the console it shows  ???????????? as I'm
>typing.  Please
>note that courier new, my console's default font can encode Cyrillics
>elsewhere on my computer (e.g. MSWord and Chrome, from which this email
>is
>being sent).  Please help me to understand why R can't do this.
>
>Thanks,
>Dan
>
>--
>Daniel Winetsky
>MD, MS Candidate
>Stanford University School of Medicine
>
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>
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