Problem rendering foreign languages in Rmd

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I think this is a problem with the knitr package, which is used under the hood by rmarkdown. You can reproduce with a similar document:

---
title: "Title"
output: html_document
---

"中文", "עברית", "english"

```{r}
c("中文", "עברית", "english")
```

Then, if you render this with:

knitr::knit("document.Rmd", encoding = "UTF-8")

a document will be generated called document.md. If you open that file (using UTF-8 encoding), you'll see the unicode escape codes there.

I'll see if I can learn a bit more and if it is indeed something that could be handled on the knitr side, I'll file an issue upstream.

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