R JSON UTF-8 parsing -

i have issue when trying parse json file in russian alphabet in r. file looks this:

[{"text": "Валера!", "type": "status"}, {"text": "когда выйдет", "type": "status"}, {"text": "КАК ДЕЛА?!)", "type": "status"}] 

and saved in utf-8 encoding. tried libraries rjson, rjsonio , jsonlite parse it, doesn't work:

library(jsonlite) allfiles <- fromjson(txt="ru_json_example_short.txt") 

gives me error

error in feed_push_parser(buf) :    lexical error: invalid char in json text.                                        [{"text": "Валера!", "                      (right here) ------^ 

when save file in ansi encodieng, works ok, then, russian alphabet transforms question marks, output unusable. know how parse such json file in r, please?

edit: above mentioned applies utf-8 file saved in windows notepad. when save in pspad , parse it, result looks this:

    text   type 1                                         <u+0412><u+0430><u+043b><u+0435><u+0440><u+0430>! status 2 <u+043a><u+043e><u+0433><u+0434><u+0430> <u+0432><u+044b><u+0439><u+0434><u+0435><u+0442> status 3                              <u+041a><u+0410><u+041a> <u+0414><u+0415><u+041b><u+0410>?!) status 

try following:

dat <- fromjson(sprintf("[%s]",                 paste(readlines("./ru_json_example_short.txt"),                 collapse=","))) dat [[1]]        text   type 1      Валера! status 2 когда выйдет status 3  КАК ДЕЛА?!) status 

ref: error parsing json file jsonlite package