[ESS] Different results for Sys.getlocale()

[Christian Zang]

Marc & Martin,

thanks for helping me out - 

Am 17.03.2010 um 13:36 schrieb Marc Schwartz:

> On Mar 17, 2010, at 4:03 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> "CZ" == Christian Zang <christian.zang at fh-weihenstephan.de>
>>>>>>>   on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:00:39 +0100 writes:
>> 
>>   CZ> Dear list, I am using ESS 5.8 with Emacs 23.1 and R
>>   CZ> 2.10.1 on Mac OSX 10.6 and have a problem with the
>>   CZ> locale. In terminal R and GUI R everything is fine, but
>>   CZ> in ESS, umlauts (like \"{u}) are not displayed properly
>>   CZ> (but with a leading quotation mark like "u, which makes
>>   CZ> ESS display the following text like a
>>   CZ> string). Sys.locale in Terminal or GUI gets me
>>   CZ> "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8"
>>   CZ> (GUI) or
>>   CZ> "de_DE.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8"
>>   CZ> (terminal), but with ESS, I only get "C".
>> 
>> ouch..
>> 
>> Is this also true, when you start Emacs
>> 
>>    M-x shell
>> and type
>>   locale 
>> in that shell ?
>> 
>> I expect your answer to be "yes".
> 
> Yes...  :-)
Indeed!

>> In that case, you need help about "Emacs on Mac OSX" (and use
>> M-x shell as example to demonstrate the problem)
>> rather than help on ESS.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>> 
>>   CZ> Has anyone come across that problem and could point me
>>   CZ> to some solution? Thanks!
>> 
>>   CZ> Best, Christian
> 
> 
> Try putting the following in your ~/.emacs file:
> 
>  (setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
This works! Thanks! 

> This will set the locale within emacs when run on OSX. Adjust as you may require for your specific locale.
> 
> The problem is that vanilla GUI based emacs 23 running on OSX does not, by default, pick up the shell environment. I have to do this with my $PATH setting in order to be able to run certain shell scripts from within ESS. My recollection is that some of the other pre-packaged versions of emacs for OSX (eg. Aquamacs, Carbon Emacs) have locally added init code that does this invisibly.
> 
> BTW, if you were to Google for this issue, you may see references to the use of ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. Do not use this approach to setting environment variables, as it introduces other complications.
Indeed, I tried that some time ago, and it did not work.

Best,
Christian