[R-pkg-devel] Check Flavor r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang charset

[Gábor Csárdi]

I think in R you can use
❯ l10n_info()
$MBCS
[1] TRUE

$`UTF-8`
[1] TRUE

$`Latin-1`
[1] FALSE

G.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 9:20 AM David Gohel <david.gohel using ardata.fr> wrote:
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> Yes, it seems so.
>
> Thanks Gabor, if possible, a docker for that case would be welcome.
>
> I think I solved my issues. I set the locale in my cpp code:
>
> setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");
>
> In the R code, I am testing if the locale is set to UTF-8 with the following code but I am not sure this is the best solution:
>
>     # Only when not windows
>     has_locale <- Sys.which("locale") != ""
>     is_utf_8 <- has_locale && (system(command = "locale charmap", intern = TRUE) == "UTF-8")
>
> If someone has an advice, it will be welcomed :)
>
>
>
> David Gohel
>
>
>
> Le 11 avr. 2019 à 10:04, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> I just got the CRAN ultimatum about a package of mine failing in that
> locale, so yes, it definitely seems intentional.
>
> Gabor
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 3:33 PM Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> If the charset choice is intentional, then we can add a builder/docker
> image for this on R-hub.
>
> It would certainly make sense to have a builder with an unusual charset.
>
> Gabor
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 11:43 AM David Gohel <david.gohel using ardata.fr> wrote:
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>
> Dear all,
>
> Among the CRAN machines used by Check, "r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang" has been upgraded from UTF-8 to ISO8859-15.
>
> # using R Under development (unstable) (2019-04-07 r76333)
> # using platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> # using session charset: ISO8859-15
>
> I realized that while reading an error that appeared few days ago on a package I maintain:
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_fpeek.html <https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_fpeek.html>
>
> My question is not how to fix my error but about the setting.
>
> Does anyone know why and if that setting will stay as is?
>
>
> Kind regards,
> David Gohel
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