On Mar 22, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Erich Studerus wrote: > I typed "export" into the mac terminal to see the setup of my system > variables. Under language I get LANG="de_CH.UTF-8". So it seems my system > variable for language is set up correctly. >
Nope ;). I assume you're looking in Terminal which sets the LANG variable according to its preferences - it is NOT set by the shell. > It doesn't make sense that Lyx would force C locale, although I don't know > where I can check this. I'm using the regular Lyx/Sweave setup described here: > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave > > I dont have this locale problem on my Windows 7 computer. I don't understand, > why R can dectect the correct locale when started from the terminal or as > R.app but not from the shell. How do these running modes differently look up > environmental variables? > Both of them set LANG explicitly - it's that easy. Apparently LyX doesn't. Again, you're barking up the wrong tree - it's not R's fault since R gives you what you ask for - namely the C locale. If LyX uses a shell to run R, it should be as easy as replacing "R" with "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 R" or whichever you prefer. I don't use LyX so I don't know what where exactly you have to change it. Note that the locale is NOT changed in the system-wide startup scripts (by default). Cheers, Simon > Regards, > Erich > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:09:21 -0400 > Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: >> On Mar 22, 2010, at 16:32 , Erich Studerus wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> I'm using Lyx with Sweave on Mac OS X 10.5.8 with R version 2.10.1. When I >>> compile Lyx documents, R is called from shell to process R code chunks >>> contained in the Lyx document. Unfortunately, R does not automatically >>> detect the correct locale when called from shell. I figured out that R >>> uses the C locale in shell mode by embedding the following code in Lyx >>> >>> <<echo=F>>= >>> sys.getlocale() >>> @ >>> >>> When I start R from the terminal and also in the R.app I get the correct >>> locale: >>> de_CH.UTF-8/de_CH.UTF-8/C/C/de_CH.UTF-8/de_UTF-8 >>> >>> How I can I get the correct locale when calling R from shell? >>> >> Setup your environment accordingly? This has nothing to do with R but your >> environment (LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_xxx) - which is what determines the locale. >> The default locale settings are system-dependent, so either your system >> default locale is C or Lyx forces C locale for the shell it starts. For >> details on locale specifications see, e.g.: >> http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/Locale-Environment-Variables.html#Locale-Environment-Variables >> http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html >> Cheers, >> Simon >> > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
