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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