[R-SIG-Mac] Wrong locale when using R from shell

[Erich Studerus]

I typed "export" into the mac terminal to see the setup of my system 
variables. Under language I get LANG="de_CH.UTF-8". So it seems my system 
variable for language is set up correctly.

It doesn't make sense that Lyx would force C locale, although I don't know 
where I can check this. I'm using the regular Lyx/Sweave setup described 
here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave

I dont have this locale problem on my Windows 7 computer. I don't 
understand, why R can dectect the correct locale when started from the 
terminal or as R.app but not from the shell. How do these running modes 
differently look up environmental variables?

Regards,
Erich

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:09:21 -0400
  Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 22, 2010, at 16:32 , Erich Studerus wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>>
>> I'm using Lyx with Sweave on Mac OS X 10.5.8 with R version 2.10.1.  
>> When I compile Lyx documents, R is called from shell to process R  
>> code chunks contained in the Lyx document. Unfortunately, R does not  
>> automatically detect the correct locale when called from shell. I  
>> figured out that R uses the C locale in shell mode by embedding the  
>> following code in Lyx
>>
>> <<echo=F>>=
>> sys.getlocale()
>> @
>>
>> When I start R from the terminal and also in the R.app I get the  
>> correct locale:
>> de_CH.UTF-8/de_CH.UTF-8/C/C/de_CH.UTF-8/de_UTF-8
>>
>> How I can I get the correct locale when calling R from shell?
>>
> 
> Setup your environment accordingly? This has nothing to do with R but 
> your environment (LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_xxx) - which is what determines  the 
>locale. The default locale settings are system-dependent, so  either your 
>system default locale is C or Lyx forces C locale for the  shell it starts. 
>For details on locale specifications see, e.g.:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/Locale-Environment-Variables.html#Locale-Environment-Variables
> http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
>