On 10/08/2012 16:53, John C Nash wrote:
WinXP says
OS reports request to set locale to "en_US.UTF-8" cannot be honored.
Sigh.
Yes, Windows has no UTF-8 locales: they are all 8-bit or DBCS (which is
ASCII plus 2-byte codes for CJK languages). You can work in UTF-16 in
any locale, but lots of things (including those written by Microsoft and
R's internals) do not. There is also some very-low-level support for
UTF-8 (which is how iconv() works on Windows).
So nowadays there are just about 3 camps
(a) UTF-8 used by all the Unix-alikes, including Mac OS X
(b) Windows
(c) C/POSIX locale, used by people who have not set a locale at all
(since C mandates it as the default) and those with no others installed.
(I may not be current, but this was the case for Cygwin a year or two
ago.)
For quite a while odfWeave only worked in a UTF-8 locale, but recently
it has also worked in CP1252 (which is what your info below shows) on
Windows and Latin-1 on Linux. Duncan Murdoch reported it worked for him
in CP1252, winbuilder works, and I've just re-checked Latin-1 on Fedora
16. So whatever the root cause here was, I don't think it was the
Windows locale. It might be Cygwin interfering ... but probably Duncan
used his usual Cygwin bash shell.
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
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Verzonden: vrijdag 10 augustus 2012 15:16
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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
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