[Rd] test fails when requesting LC_CTYPE

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

On RedHat Enterprise Linux 6, the test below fails (this is using the stock
GCC 4.4.7) from R-devel r72707.  LC_CTYPE is unset when I run it, but
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

It also failed "yesterday" where as far as I recall the test code looked a
bit different.

Best,
Kasper

> ## Results differed by platform, but some gave incorrect results on
string 10.
>
>
> ## str() on large strings (in multibyte locales; changing locale may not
work everywhere
> oloc <- Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE")
> mbyte.lc <- {
+     if(.Platform$OS.type == "windows")
+       "English_United States.28605"
+     else if(grepl("[.]UTF-8$", oloc, ignore.case=TRUE)) # typically
nowadays
+       oloc
+     else
+       "C.UTF-8" # or rather "en_US.UTF-8" (? from  system("locale -a|
fgrep .UTF-8") )
+ }
> stopifnot(identical(Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", mbyte.lc), mbyte.lc))
Error: identical(Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", mbyte.lc), mbyte.lc) is not TRUE
In addition: Warning message:
In Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", mbyte.lc) :
  OS reports request to set locale to "C.UTF-8" cannot be honored
Execution halted

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