On Saturday, 9 May 2015 18:18:28 UTC+1, Jameson wrote: > > It might be a problem with windows. In particular, windows has 3 > semi-independent environment variables. Julia uses the Win32 API > environment, but there are also two posix environ arrays (unicode and not > unicode) that might be getting used by R. Additionally, some > languages (such as Tk) make a copy of the environment upon startup in order > to expose it as a normal string array in the language, making the problem > even worse. ( > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/stxk41x1(v=vs.110).aspx) >
Okay, I lied. I did keep looking, and that's exactly the problem: we're using the unicode set function (which only changes the unicode array), whereas R uses the non-unicode one (which when setting changes both). For anyone else interested, the details are here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tehxacec(v=vs.80).aspx
