write.csv covert Åland to <c5>land

Hi there,

Why the same string is displayed in different form?

 > abc[,1]
[1] "?land"       "Afghanistan"
 > abc
          name
1    <c5>land
2 Afghanistan

And more...

 > dput(abc, "aa.txt")
 > dget("aa.txt")
          name
1    <c5>land
2 Afghanistan
 > dget("aa.txt")[,1]
[1] "<c5>land"    "Afghanistan"

Best,
Jinsong

Hi there,

I tried to export the names of country to a csv file with write.csv(). 
In the resulted file, ?land was coverted to <c5>land. Is there any way 
could prevent this happening? Thanks!

 > abc

[1] "?land"

 > write.table(abc, file = "")

"x"
"1" "<c5>land"

Best,
Jinsong

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