[R-sig-Fedora] Installing locales in Fedora

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Aug 8 14:04:43 CEST 2014


On 08/08/2014 11:25 AM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> Not specifically an R question, but hopefully some Fedora users might
> know the answer. I am creating an rpm for an R application that uses
> en_US.UTF-8:
> 
>   Sys.setlocale(category='LC_ALL', 'en_US.UTF-8');
>   Sys.setenv(LANG="en_US.UTF-8")
> 
> On my own Fedora installation, en_US.UTF-8 was installed by default.
> However this was an English system, so I am not sure this will be the
> case for any Fedora system. Is there an rpm package in Fedora that I
> can declare as a dependency in my rpm spec to make sure en_US.UTF-8
> will be available, even on bare-minimum Chinese Fedora installation?

I don't think it is possible to install Fedora without en_US.UTF-8,
unless you are deleting files manually.

~tom

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