R help - Jun 2013 - R CMD BATCH Unicode

Hey,

I am looking for some help using Unicode with R CMD BATCH on windows.  In
particular I would like my input and output files to be UTF-8 encoded.  My
command line looks like this:

r CMD BATCH --encoding=UTF-8 in.txt out.txt

in.txt is utf-8 encoded and contains:

print("éíôåëëåãåâáè")

out.txt gets:

+ <ERROR: re-encoding failure from encoding 'UTF-8'>

What is the proper way to specify encoding on the command line?

Thanks in advance,

Ned.

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Just to clarify: The encoding didn't come through in the email. 
print("????????????") is meant to be a bunch of random greek
characters.

Ned.

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Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 11:35 AM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] R CMD BATCH Unicode

Hey,

I am looking for some help using Unicode with R CMD BATCH on windows.  In
particular I would like my input and output files to be UTF-8 encoded.  My
command line looks like this:

r CMD BATCH --encoding=UTF-8 in.txt out.txt

in.txt is utf-8 encoded and contains:

print("????????????")

out.txt gets:

+ <ERROR: re-encoding failure from encoding 'UTF-8'>

What is the proper way to specify encoding on the command line?

Thanks in advance,

Ned.

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