R devel - Jun 2019 - Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 failed

Using this in my "~/.profile":

    export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Yields this:

    $ Rscript -e 'print(9)'
    During startup - Warning message:
    Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 failed
    [1] 9

This is confusing as the exact same environment works fine with other
languages:

    $ python3 -c 'print(9)'
    9

    $ ruby -e 'puts 9'
    9

On 6/5/19 3:49 AM, Steven Penny wrote:
> Using this in my "~/.profile":
>
> ?? export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Yields this:
>
> ?? $ Rscript -e 'print(9)'
> ?? During startup - Warning message:
> ?? Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 failed
> ?? [1] 9
>
> This is confusing as the exact same environment works fine with other
> languages:
>
> ?? $ python3 -c 'print(9)'
> ?? 9
>
> ?? $ ruby -e 'puts 9'
> ?? 9
The locale is probably not available on your system, please 
install/generate it.

Tomas

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On 06/06/2019 6:22 a.m., Tomas Kalibera wrote:
> On 6/5/19 3:49 AM, Steven Penny wrote:
>> Using this in my "~/.profile":
>>
>>  ?? export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> Yields this:
>>
>>  ?? $ Rscript -e 'print(9)'
>>  ?? During startup - Warning message:
>>  ?? Setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 failed
>>  ?? [1] 9
>>
>> This is confusing as the exact same environment works fine with other
>> languages:
>>
>>  ?? $ python3 -c 'print(9)'
>>  ?? 9
>>
>>  ?? $ ruby -e 'puts 9'
>>  ?? 9
> 
> The locale is probably not available on your system, please
> install/generate it.
I think Steven is running the Windows build, not a POSIX build, so 
that's not a legal value.  He could try the Cygwin build, but I think it 
has other problems, and isn't supported by R Core.  As far as I know 
there is no Windows locale that fully supports UTF-8.

Duncan Murdoch