Can't read data coded in Cyrillic

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.

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

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Daniel Winetsky
MD, MS Candidate
Stanford University School of Medicine

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