R devel - Nov 2013 - Setting locale to support UTF-8

In Sweave, if the locale is set to C, non-ASCII characters are not 
handled nicely even if I declare the encoding of the file to be
"UTF-8".
  I'm trying to find a workaround for this, because I'm using Sweave 
from within TeXShop.   TeXShop runs its typesetting engines in the C 
locale, and non-ascii characters are messed up.

Is there a way to declare that I am in a "generic" UTF-8 locale?  It
is
like the C locale in other respects, but it knows about UTF-8 characters.

Duncan Murdoch

On 30/11/2013 20:09, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> In Sweave, if the locale is set to C, non-ASCII characters are not
> handled nicely even if I declare the encoding of the file to be
"UTF-8".
>   I'm trying to find a workaround for this, because I'm using
Sweave
> from within TeXShop.   TeXShop runs its typesetting engines in the C
> locale, and non-ascii characters are messed up.
>
> Is there a way to declare that I am in a "generic" UTF-8 locale? 
It is
> like the C locale in other respects, but it knows about UTF-8 characters.
Locales are about more than encodings, but LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 will 
works almost everywhere.  The only place I know where it might give 
trouble is Debian which micromanages glibc and makes installation of 
locales optional.

But on a OS which supports UTF-8 locales it would be perverse not to 
have a least one UTF-8 locale installed.

(There is also the issue of .UTF-8 vs .utf8, but I think everyone 
accepts the first now.)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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