[R-SIG-Mac] Encoding issue with text output from R

[Fisher Dennis]

R 2.15.2
OS X ML

Colleagues,

I am "sink"ing output from statistical tests to a text file:
	sink(FILENAME)
	SOMETEST()
	sink()

When I open the file with TextEdit, the output from lm() contains:
	Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 

When I open the identical file in Word (2008), that same text appears as:
	Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 
When Word opens, it asks about the selection of encoding for the file.  I tried a number of options and all lead to the same distorted text.

Any idea how to resolve this (other than to ignore Word!)?

Dennis  

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