I am sorry, part of the output is garbled, as the email's encoding is different, but the error is hopefully still clear.
This is Ubuntu 20.04, yesterday's R devel or R release, in the zh_CN locale. The zh_CN.UTF-8 locale is fine, and it is a much better option, so I am not sure if this is considered to be a bug. > install.packages("evaluate") ����������װ��'/root/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3' (��Ϊ'lib'û�б�ָ��) �Կ�URL��https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/focal/latest/src/contrib/evaluate_0.17.tar.gz' Content type 'binary/octet-stream' length 25984 bytes (25 KB) ================================================== downloaded 25 KB * installing *source* package 'evaluate' ... ** �ɹ���'evaluate'������������MD5�ͼ��� ** using staged installation Warning in parse(con, encoding = "UTF-8") : argument encoding="UTF-8" is ignored in MBCS locales Error : invalid multibyte character in parser (<input>:11:32) ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'evaluate' * removing '/root/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.3/evaluate' ���صij������� '/tmp/Rtmp3O0zlO/downloaded_packages'�� Warning message: In install.packages("evaluate") : ��װ������'evaluate'ʱ�˳�??��ֵ����0 R-release produces the same error. Dockerfile to reproduce this: FROM ubuntu:20.04 RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install curl locales RUN curl -Ls https://github.com/r-lib/rig/releases/download/latest/rig-linux-latest.tar.gz | tar xz -C /usr/local RUN rig add devel RUN rig add release RUN locale-gen zh_CN RUN uname -a RUN R -q -e 'sessionInfo()' RUN LC_ALL=zh_CN R -q -e 'install.packages("evaluate")' G. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel