[ESS] Utf-8 problems

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

Serdae,

How do you set the locale?  Remember, that GUI applications (such as
Emacs) do not inherit it if you set it in .bashrc.

Kasper

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Mathieu Basille
<basille at ase-research.org> wrote:
> I guess it's not even related to Emacs, but more to the environment and how
> R loads locales... On my system (Debian Squeeze), if I open R directly in a
> terminal, I have the following (the same happens if I use Emacs+ESS):
>
>> paste("åäö")
> [1] "åäö"
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
> Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> Not sure how it helps, though. I'm sure I didn't do anything particular for
> R but, again, it's Debian Squeeze...
> Mathieu.
>
>
> Le 25/04/2012 08:44, Rodney Sparapani a écrit :
>
>> Serdae wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm running ESS for MacOSX 10.6.8 and have problems with setting the
>>> locales for sv_SV.UTF-8 permanent.
>>> For instance running the following command gives
>>> > paste("åäö")
>>> [1] "\303\245\303\244\303\266"
>>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> [1] C
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] compiler_2.15.0 tools_2.15.0
>>>
>>> Regards Serdar
>>
>>
>> Hi Serdar:
>>
>> This does not appear to be an ESS issue. I suggest that you consult the
>> Emacs on Mac OS X mailing list.
>>
>> Rodney
>>
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