[R-SIG-Mac] The GUI defaults on japanese in my environment.

Simon Urbanek simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Mon Jun 19 15:51:39 CEST 2006


On Jun 7, 2006, at 6:46 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:

> Le Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:36:09PM +0200, Simon Urbanek a écrit :
>
>> if you wish to
>> use US-english locale, you can force the GUI to do so by writing in
>> the Terminal:
>>
>> defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> The only requirement is that the locale must use UTF-8, otherwise
>> many things will break. In addition to that, it is always possible to
>> use the corresponding LC_xx environment variables if finely-grained
>> control over the locale is desired.
>
> Thank you very much for your detailed answer. May I suggest to  
> integrate
> it in the FAQ (I googled hard before asking for help on this list...).
>
> I can propose a patch if I am given the source file of the FAQ...
>

Updates to the documentation are always highly welcome (preferably as  
patches). The sources are included in the Mac-GUI sources in
Mac-GUI/docs/RMacOSX-FAQ.texi

Thanks,
Simon



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