Using Hebrew Characters in a String

Question

I would like to use Hebrew characters in a string in R. I used the following:

> a<-c("משה") > a [1] "îùä" > class (a) [1] "character" 

As you can see, I get Jibbrish when outputting the contents of a string or using any functions. How can I use Hebrew characters?

Answer 1

Thanks to all the comments, here is the answer: If I use it as is, I get Jibbrish:

 > a<-"משה" > a [1] "îùä" 

However, if I encode it in UTF8, I get the correct result:

 > a<-enc2utf8( "משה") > a [1] "משה" 

I want a way to do this without coding.