title: Problem in R with xml parse output on the Window XP – breaking national symbol
body: <p>I am interesting use R for data mining in the media research.</p>
  
  <p>When I am pars xml (scraping Google RSS) national symbol (Cyrillic) is breaking:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;xml &lt;- xmlTreeParse(url, useInternalNodes = T)  
  &gt;xml  
  &lt;? xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF‑8"?&gt;  
  &lt;rss version="2.0"&gt;  
  &lt;channel&gt;  
  &lt;generator&gt;NFE/1.0&lt;/generator&gt;  
  &lt;title&gt;СЋРіСЂР° OR С…Р°РЅС‚С‹ OR С…РјР°Рѕ вЂ“ РќРѕРІРѕСЃС‚Рё Google&lt;/title&gt;  
  …  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My system is:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>sessionInfo()<br>
        R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)  </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>Platform: i386-pc‑mingw32/i386 (32-bit)  
  locale:  
  [1] LC_COLLATE=Russian_Russia.1251 LC_CTYPE=Russian_Russia.1251  
  [3] LC_MONETARY=Russian_Russia.1251 LC_NUMERIC=C  
  [5] LC_TIME=Russian_Russia.1251  
  
  attached base packages:  
  [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base  
  
  other attached packages:  
  [1] XML_3.4-2.2 RCurl_1.6-10.1 bitops_1.0-4.1  
  
  loaded via a namespace (and not attached):  
  [1] tools_2.13.1  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am try used any custom options (<code>localeToCharset(locale="ru_RU.UTF-8")</code>) – without effect. </p>
  
  <p>I've been running the parsing on the Linux (Lubuntu 11.04) – no problem, national symbol output correct.<br>
  Sorry for my English.<br>
  Any idea?<br>
  Thanks.</p>