How to use read.table with Hebrew column names ?

An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: not available
URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20100101/ca4a1000/attachment.pl>

An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: not available
URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20100102/cdbe1fca/attachment.pl>

Hello dear R help group,

I am trying to read a .txt file, with Hebrew column names, while  
keeping the
column names looking well in R - but without success.

I uploaded an example file to:
http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt

And am trying the command:
read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T, sep  
= "\t")

This returns me with:

 X.....? X...?...... X...?....
1      12          97         6
2     123         354        44
3       6           1         3

Unable to reproduce:

 > read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T, sep =
+ "\t")
   ??? ????? ????
1  12    97    6
2 123   354   44
3   6     1    3

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 RC (2009-12-09 r50695)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.12.1  grid_2.10.1     Hmisc_3.7-0     lattice_0.17-26  
tools_2.10.1
 >

I suspect you will need to be more specific about your setup  
details... OS ... encodings  ... the sort of think that comes from  
sessionInfo.

Instead of:

???	?????	????
12	97	6
123	354	44
6	1	3


Any suggestion or clarification will be appreciated.

Best,
Tal

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT