The GUI defaults on japanese in my environment.

I am using the R GUI on a powermac G5 running Tiger, and despite  
having selected English as a language in the systems preferences,  
the GUI tries to speak to me in Japanese. It is a very aware GUI,  
for it may have smelled the flagrance of green tea on my desk, as I  
am indeed geographically localised in Japan. However, I am not  
expert enough in japanese to read error messages...

More seriously, I figured out that it uses the "Region" information  
in the "Format" tab of the "International" section of the  
preferences, which I set to japanese to have the dates and  
currencies japanese-style. I would be inclined to call this a bug,  
but maybe it is an intentionnal behaviour?

if you wish to  
use US-english locale, you can force the GUI to do so by writing in  
the Terminal:

defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8

The only requirement is that the locale must use UTF-8, otherwise  
many things will break. In addition to that, it is always possible to  
use the corresponding LC_xx environment variables if finely-grained  
control over the locale is desired.

Le Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:36:09PM +0200, Simon Urbanek a ?crit :

if you wish to
use US-english locale, you can force the GUI to do so by writing in
the Terminal:

defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8

The only requirement is that the locale must use UTF-8, otherwise
many things will break. In addition to that, it is always possible to
use the corresponding LC_xx environment variables if finely-grained
control over the locale is desired.

Thank you very much for your detailed answer. May I suggest to  
integrate
it in the FAQ (I googled hard before asking for help on this list...).

I can propose a patch if I am given the source file of the FAQ...