[Rd] Sys.setlocale upsets windows graphics device (PR#8887)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Edward wrote:

> Hi,
> We tried it on 3 separate windows XP computers using version 2.3.0.
> The original locale is set for Thailand on all 3.
> So how do we fix it? Is there another patch?

Don't try to do graphics in the C locale on your computer?

I suspect this is a font problem in Windows, in that your fonts may be 
specific to the Thai localization.  But without a means of reproducing 
this, I can only guess.

If you can set up a debugger (see the rw-FAQ), you may be able to give us
some additional clues as the where the crash is occuring.

> And why does the crash not happen with earlier R versions (eg. 2.2.1) on the 
> same computer?

Because of the issue mentioned in the CHANGES file, the change to the C 
locale was reverted by opening a graphics window.

>
> ---
>> Sys.getlocale()
> [1] 
> "LC_COLLATE=Thai_Thailand.874;LC_CTYPE=Thai_Thailand.874;LC_MONETARY=Thai_Thailand.874;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Thai_Thailand.874"
> ---
>
> Thanks
> Edward
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prof Brian Ripley" 
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: <edward.m at psu.ac.th>
> Cc: <R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk>
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 2:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Sys.setlocale upsets windows graphics device (PR#8887)
>
>
>> Works perfectly for me.  There was a bug in 2.2.1, but it was fixed in
>> 2.2.1 patched (see CHANGES).
>> 
>> What locale were you changing from?  (This might be a Windows problem 
>> specific to your locale.)
>> 
>> On Mon, 22 May 2006, edward.m at psu.ac.th wrote:
>> 
>>> Full_Name: Edward McNeil
>>> Version: 2.3.0
>>> OS: Widows XP
>>> Submission from: (NULL) (203.170.234.5)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Type the following:
>>> 
>>>> Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","C")
>>>> hist(1:10)
>>> 
>>> CRASH
>>> 
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>> 
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>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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>
>

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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