My system:win7+R-3.0.2.

```
> Sys.getlocale()
[1] "LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese 
(Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_People's        
republic of China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936"

```

There are two files with same content saved in microsoft notepad: [one](http://pan.baidu.com/s/1c0pGvqK) is saved as ansi format, [the other](http://pan.baidu.com/s/1kT7IYft) is saved as utf8 format.The data is death name in M370 Malaysia Airlines .
Or you can create the file this way. 

1)copy the data into microsoft notepad. 

```
乘客姓名,性别,出生日期
HuangTianhui,男,1948/05/28
姜翠云,女,1952/03/27
李红晶,女,1994/12/09

```

2)save it as test.ansi with ansi format in notepad.  

3)save it as test.utf8 with utf-8 format in notepad.

```
read.table("test.ansi",sep=",",header=TRUE)  #can work fine
read.table("test.utf8",sep=",",header=TRUE)  #can't work

```

Then, i set encoding into utf-8.

```
options(encoding="utf-8")
read.table("test.utf8",sep=",",header=TRUE,encoding="utf-8")

 In read.table("test.utf8", sep = ",",header=TRUE,encoding = "utf-8") :
invalid input found on input connection 'test.utf8'

```

How can I read the data file (test.utf8)?  

In python,it is so simple 

```
rfile=open("g:\\test.utf8","r",encoding="utf-8").read()
rfile
'\ufeff乘客姓名,性别,出生日期\n\nHuangTianhui,男,1948/05/28\n\n姜翠云,女,1952/03
/27\n\n李红晶,女,1994/12/09'
rfile.replace("\n\n","\n").replace("\ufeff","").splitlines()
['乘客姓名,性别,出生日期', 'HuangTianhui,男,1948/05/28', '姜翠云,女,1952/03/27',
 '李红晶,女,1994/12/09']

```

Python can do such job better than R.

I do as Sathish say, problem solved a little ,still remain some.  

I found that when the data is in data.frame ,it can not be displayed properly,  

when the data is a column of data.frame ,it can be displayed properly,  

strange enough,when the data is a row of data.frame,it can not be displayed properly .

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/39svc.jpg)

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lOky3.jpg)