Thanks, works for me.
Best,
Kasper
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> wrote:
> >>>>> Kasper Daniel Hansen <kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com>
> >>>>> on Fri, 19 May 2017 20:09:24 -0400 writes:
>
> > I rebuilt R with
> > export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> > and the test still fail. Surprisingly, when I run R from the bin
> directory
> > and execute the test code, it runs without error:
>
> >> oloc <- Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE")
> >> mbyte.lc <- {
> > + if(.Platform$OS.type == "windows")
> > + "English_United States.28605"
> > + else if(grepl("[.]UTF-8$", oloc, ignore.case=TRUE)) # typically
> nowadays
> > + oloc
> > + else
> > + "C.UTF-8" # or rather "en_US.UTF-8" (? from system("locale
> -a| fgrep .UTF-8") )
> > + }
> >> stopifnot(identical(Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", mbyte.lc), mbyte.lc))
> >> oloc
> > [1] "en_US.UTF-8"
> >> mbyte.lc
> > [1] "en_US.UTF-8"
>
> I had been making these changes in R-devel after offline
> discussions with Linux users for which the original check (using
> "en_UK.UTF-8")
> failed.
>
> What I read below is suggesting that "C.UTF-8" is not okay
> either, as a fallback.
>
> It seems we should use "en_US.UTF-8" as fallback instead
> (though I assume that won't work in North Korea).
>
> I've committed a version that does that _and_ no longer stops
> when that identical() does not give a 'TRUE'.
>
> Martin
>
> > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
> > kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> On RedHat Enterprise Linux 6, the test below fails (this is using
> the
> >> stock GCC 4.4.7) from R-devel r72707. LC_CTYPE is unset when I run
> it, but
> >> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> >>
> >> It also failed "yesterday" where as far as I recall the test code
> looked a
> >> bit different.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Kasper
> >>
> >> > ## Results differed by platform, but some gave incorrect results
> on
> >> string 10.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ## str() on large strings (in multibyte locales; changing locale
> may not
> >> work everywhere
> >> > oloc <- Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE")
> >> > mbyte.lc <- {
> >> + if(.Platform$OS.type == "windows")
> >> + "English_United States.28605"
> >> + else if(grepl("[.]UTF-8$", oloc, ignore.case=TRUE)) #
> typically
> >> nowadays
> >> + oloc
> >> + else
> >> + "C.UTF-8" # or rather "en_US.UTF-8" (? from system("locale
> -a|
> >> fgrep .UTF-8") )
> >> + }
> >> > stopifnot(identical(Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", mbyte.lc), mbyte.lc
> ))
> >> Error: identical(Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", mbyte.lc), mbyte.lc) is
> not
> >> TRUE
> >> In addition: Warning message:
> >> In Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", mbyte.lc) :
> >> OS reports request to set locale to "C.UTF-8" cannot be honored
> >> Execution halted
> >>
>
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