WinXP says OS reports request to set locale to "en_US.UTF-8" cannot be honored.
Sigh. JN On 08/10/2012 11:40 AM, Frans Marcelissen wrote: > Hi, > I had the same problem unde linux. My friend Albert Jan Roskam knew the > solution: add > Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_ALL", locale = "en_US.UTF-8") > I suppose this also works under windows. > Frans > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > Namens John C Nash > Verzonden: vrijdag 10 augustus 2012 15:16 > Aan: Duncan Murdoch > CC: r-help@r-project.org > Onderwerp: Re: [R] Running odfWeave on its own examples.odt > > My bad. Should have included sessionInfo(). Here it is for the two virtual > machines -- rebooting is a pain! > > Since Duncan found it "worked" for him, I suspect some configuration issue. > I'm happy to off-list until it is resolved. I also see the locales, which > are clearly NOT utf8, so maybe Cygwin let's me change them? > > JN > > > WinXP: Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 3 > sessionInfo() R version > 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) > Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] > LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods > [8] base > > other attached packages: > [1] MASS_7.3-18 odfWeave_0.8.1 XML_3.9-4.1 lattice_0.20-6 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.15.1 > > > > Win7: (Professional, Service Pack 1) > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) > Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] > LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] odfWeave_0.8.1 XML_3.9-4.1 lattice_0.20-6 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] grid_2.15.1 > > > > > > On 12-08-10 08:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 12-08-10 7:55 AM, John C Nash wrote: >>> I'm trying to see if I can help some Windows users, but in WinXP and >>> Win7 virtual machines and in a Win 7-64 real environment, after >>> extracting the odfWeave examples.odt from the package and putting it >>> in my working directory ("My Documents") where R can see and unpack >>> it, I get "unable to convert 'examples.odt' to the current locale". >>> I've tried some searches about UTF8 on Windows, which gave >>> discouraging answers, and also the Sweave manual suggestions of different > options(), e.g., I tried the suggestions regarding useFancyQuotes but > without success. >>> >>> Things work fine (of course!) in Linux of different flavours, so I >>> suspect this is a general Win issue, and I'm hopeful there is a simple > workaround. >>> >>> The reproducible code is to source("tester.R") from R prompt or else >>> >>> Rscript tester.R >>> >>> where tester.R contains >>> >>> library(odfWeave) >>> test<-odfWeave("examples.odt", "ex1out.odt") >>> >>> and this gives the same message "unable to convert examples.odt in the > current locale". >>> >>> For information, changing the file to "simple.odt" does work, at >>> least on one of my systems. >> >> I just tried that in WinXP 32 bit, and it ran without problem. This >> was in R-patched, with odfWeave 0.8.1. >> >> Which versions were you using? >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >>> >>> John Nash >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
