Excellent! That's a relief, and a good thing to know.

defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment LANG en_GB.UTF-8
defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment LC_ALL en_GB.UTF-8

did the trick (not sure both were needed, one needs to log out / log in
again to see the effect).

Thank you all,

baptiste


2009/7/2 Kasper Daniel Hansen <khansen@stat.berkeley.edu>

> This is not that hard to fix. THe problem is that GUI applications on OS X
> don't care at all what settings you have in .bashrc/.profile/.bash_login.
> There are two solutions
>  1) Figure out how to set it in Emacs (which may be hard)
>  2) set up an "environment.plist" which is a file that essentially
> functions as .bashrc for GUIs.
> Google environment.plist or see the links in the previous email.
>
> Note that I am sure that the settings in the *shell* in Emacs can be
> different from the settings for other buffers.
>
> Kasper
>
>
>
> On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:41 , baptiste auguie wrote:
>
>  2009/7/1 Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa@mcw.edu>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is really not an ESS question.  I believe this has to do with
>>> how you create a default "environment" under OS X.  I'm not going to
>>> say more on this list, but the attachment might give you some ideas
>>> how to fix it.
>>>
>>> Rodney
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You're right, the problem is now identified as my incompetence to set up
>> emacs properly on Mac OSX. I'll probably try the aquamacs list (that is,
>> if
>> I can resist much longer the temptation to revert to a more intuitive text
>> editor).
>>
>> Thanks again everyone for the ideas,
>>
>> baptiste
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