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From: murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 09:24:31 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 failed
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On 06/06/2019 7:28 a.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 06/06/2019 6:22 a.m., Tomas Kalibera wrote:
>> On 6/5/19 3:49 AM, Steven Penny wrote:
>>> Using this in my "~/.profile":
>>>
>>>   ?? export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
>>>
>>> Yields this:
>>>
>>>   ?? $ Rscript -e 'print(9)'
>>>   ?? During startup - Warning message:
>>>   ?? Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 failed
>>>   ?? [1] 9
>>>
>>> This is confusing as the exact same environment works fine with other
>>> languages:
>>>
>>>   ?? $ python3 -c 'print(9)'
>>>   ?? 9
>>>
>>>   ?? $ ruby -e 'puts 9'
>>>   ?? 9
>>
>> The locale is probably not available on your system, please
>> install/generate it.
> 
> I think Steven is running the Windows build, not a POSIX build, so
> that's not a legal value.  He could try the Cygwin build, but I think it
> has other problems, and isn't supported by R Core.  As far as I know
> there is no Windows locale that fully supports UTF-8.
> 

The Windows name for a UTF-8 locale is supposed to be en_US.65001 (see
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/locale-names-languages-and-country-region-strings?view=vs-2019> 
if it hasn't disappeared by the time you read this).  However, when I 
tried that a few years ago, it didn't work.  Maybe it does now.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 failed
Duncan Murdoch