On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Liviu Andronic wrote:
Dear R devels
Yesterday I was slightly surprised to notice that R incorrectly
detected some of the locale settings. I am not sure whether this is
important, but I preferred to drop a message. In the R output below,
some entries that should have been "en_GB.UTF-8" are presented as "C".
Regards
Liviu
R only sets the entries it needs. In particular, you most definitely do
not want LC_NUMERIC automatically set to your current locale, as this
may cause system I/O to use "," instead of "." in numbers.
It might be worth pointing out that C programs start in the 'C"
locale, not the locale of the OS session. So only when a program
deliberately set a locale category is the value not 'C".
(That's what the standards say: implementations may differ, of course,
but apart from some minor difference with MinGW on Windows, I am not
aware of any.)
sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] fortunes_1.3-6 relimp_1.0-1
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tcltk_2.9.1
li...@debian-liv:~$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
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