[R] Running odfWeave on its own examples.odt
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Aug 20 15:36:35 CEST 2012
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
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>> Namens John C Nash
>> Verzonden: vrijdag 10 augustus 2012 15:16
>> Aan: Duncan Murdoch
>> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>> 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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