Problem reading SPSS-file in R!

Hello,
I am using the latest version of R (2.9.2 GUI 1.29 Tiger build 32- 
bit (5464)) and SPSS version 16.0. This is on a MacBook with OSX  
Snow Leopard. I have a problem reading an SPSS-file in R.

I do as following:

require(foreign)
mydata <- read.spss("filename.sav",use.value.labels = TRUE,  
to.data.frame = TRUE)

but I only get the answer:

re-encoding from latin9
Error in iconv(names(rval), cp, "") :
 unsupported conversion from 'latin9' to ''

latin9 is not a supported alias on OS X, you may want to use the full  
name of the encoding, i.e., reencode="ISO-8859-15" (if it is really  
latin9).

[It probably needs to be fixed either in foreign (because it should  
know better than to not use latin9) or in R (if we want to support the  
latin9) ...]

Cheers,
Simon
Does anybody have an idea why this happens and also what I can do to  
make things work as they should. I have no problem with my work  
computer, that has Windows and SPSS version 15.0.
Many thanksJohan
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