Printing UTF-8 characters in R, Rmd, knitr, bookdown

Question

UPDATE (April 2018):
The problem still persists, under different settings and computers. I believe it is related to all UNICODE, UTF-8 characters.

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Answer 1

The only solution that worked was the one suggested by Yihui Xie (knitr developer), which is :
creating a file .Rprofile, which contains one line Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "russian") and placing it in your home or working directory.

However, please note that, it works only with use of kable(), i.e with help of knitr package.
If you try to print with print(dt$name[1]), you still get Áîðèñ Íåìöîâ.
However, if you use kable(dt$name[1]), you'll get what you need - Борис Немцов !