[Rd] change in sorting?

[Thierry Onkelinx]

Dear all,

One of the unit tests for my package breaks only on r-devel under Windows (
https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_git2rdata.html).
The unit test sorts a set of UTF-8 characters and writes them to disk. I've
noticed that the Euro symbol (€) gets a different place in r-devel under
Windows 10 compared to over combinations of R version and OS.

I know that sorting depends on the locale. Therefore I set the locale to
"C" prior to sorting. See the function below. After sorting, I reset the
locale to the existing one.

Is there something that I'm missing?

Best regards,

Thierry

set_c_locale <- function() {
  old_ctype <- Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_CTYPE")
  old_collate <- Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_COLLATE")
  old_time <- Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_TIME")
  old_monetary <- Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_MONETARY")
  Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_CTYPE", locale = "C")
  Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_COLLATE", locale = "C")
  Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_TIME", locale = "C")
  Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_MONETARY", locale = "C")
  return(
    c(
      ctype = old_ctype, collate = old_collate, time = old_time,
      monetary = old_monetary
    )
  )
}

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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