Phil Spector wrote:
>
> Steven -
> Does typing
>
> Sys.setlocale('LC_ALL','C')
>
> before the offending command suppress the message?
>
> - Phil Spector
> Statistical Computing Facility
> Department of Statistics
> UC Berkeley
> spec...@stat.berkeley.edu
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, steven mosher wrote:
>
>> I'm doing some test processing of a cvs file that appears to use a
>> different
>> locale
>> from my machine.
>>
>> I get the following warning:
>>
>> input string 1 is invalid in this locale
>>
>> My locale is US. Is this simply a matter of changing my locale to 'all;
>> locales?
>>
>> I don't know what locale the string is in, is there a way to detect this
>> or
>> translate
>>
>
Thanks! I was having a similar problem with some non-English characters
(such as the e-acute) causing memory corruption ('glibc detected' error)
upon using grep. Your solution makes it work fine.
-Sunny.
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