Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 failed
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