On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:06 PM, alexandre villers<[email protected]> wrote: > Good afternoon, > > Sorry bothering you with this on the list, but one of you might know how to > list the locale available on my computer. > In order to try running GRASS6.4 on my machine (with windows XP), Markus > Neteler advised me I needed to set locale to "French_France.UTF8"
... to give you a bit more background, here excerpts of my related offlist mail to Alexandre: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Markus Neteler<[email protected]> wrote: >> *g.region --interface-description >> >> *<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >> <!DOCTYPE task SYSTEM "grass-interface.dtd"> > > -> it wants UTF8.. but it does not get it: > >> > loc<-initGRASS("C:/GRASS", home="C:/temp/", override=T) #intialise GRASS >> > dans un dossier de travail dans tempdir >> Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! >> Bytes: 0xE9 0x66 0x69 0x6E >> Error : 1: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! >> Bytes: 0xE9 0x66 0x69 0x6E > > because in your system: >> >> locale: >> LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252;LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252;LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=French_France.1252 > > ... this seems to be a candidate. What I mean: apparently .UTF8 output by GRASS conflicts with expected .1252 input in R. best Markus _______________________________________________ grass-stats mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-stats
