On 6/6/19 3:24 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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.
Yes, it is 65001 but it still cannot be used as setlocale() Windows
locale (in LC_CTYPE), and hence R on Windows cannot use UTF-8 as native
encoding.
Tomas
Duncan Murdoch
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