[R] Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE","fr_FR.UTF-8")

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, NOEL Yvonnick wrote:

> Dear R users,
>
> I'm trying to have a gWiddgetsRGtk2 script run under R-2.4.1. The script
> run OK under Linux but all accentuated characters appear as "?" when the
> script is run under Windows.
>
> As Gtk+ requires UTF-8, I thought it was the source of the problem and
> tried to change the default encoding (1252) in the following way:
>
> >Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE","fr_FR.UTF-8")
> [1]  "fr_FR.UTF-8"
>
> But when I try as a check:
> >Sys.getlocale("LC_TYPE")
> [1] "French_France.1252"
>
> So it seems that Sys.setlocale() has not changed anything. What am I
> doing wrong ?

>From the help page:

   locale: character string.  A valid locale name on the system in use.

Your locale name is not valid on Windows: see the 'R Installation and 
Administration Manual', section 7.1 for more details.

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