[R-sig-Debian] Locale settings on Debian

[Gregor GORJANC]

Hello!

I have a problem with locales in R (debian package r-base) 2.1.0-1. I get
the following error:

$ R

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Version 2.1.0  (2005-04-18), ISBN 3-900051-07-0

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  Natural language support but running in an English locale

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R> plot(1:10)
Error in X11() : could not find any X11 fonts
Check that the Font Path is correct.
In addition: Warning messages:
1: locale not supported by Xlib: some X ops will operate in C locale
2: X cannot set locale modifiers

# In R I have the following locales, which are a mixture of mine setting
# (look at the end of this mail) and R settings i.e. some my locales
# settings were overriden by R and some added
R> Sys.getlocale()
[1]"LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.utf8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8;
LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;
LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C"

# and new internationalization functions say that everything should be OK
R> l10n_info()
$MBCS
[1] TRUE

$"UTF-8"
[1] TRUE

# and It afcourse works fine if I set
R> Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "C")

# If I echo LC variables in terminal I have
$ echo $LC
$LC_ALL          $LC_MEASUREMENT  $LC_PAPER        $LC_TIME

$ echo $LC_PAPER
a4

$ echo $LC_TIME
en_US

$ echo $LC_MEASUREMENT
metric

$ echo $LC_ALL
en_US.utf8

$ echo $LAN
$LANG      $LANGUAGE

$ echo $LANG
en_US.utf8

$ echo $LANGUAGE
en_US.utf8

# I use en_US.utf8 since I need possibility to display also non-ascii
# characters in terminal.

Does anyone have any suggestions what should I do?

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Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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