
On 28 Sep 2006, at 19:59, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> On Sep 28, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Ivan Alves wrote:
>> Here is the problem (I thought), since I get
>>
>> > iconv("Compa\361ia","latin1","UTF-8")
>> [1] "Compa\303\261ia"
>>
>> in both the command-line R (in Terminal) and in the GUI.
>
> Now this is definitely a problem. Which locale are you running  
> (i.e. which language is first in "System Preferences" ->  
> "International" -> "Language" and which region in "Formats")? Also  
> send me the output of

English is top on the list of languages and is also selected for  
order of sorted lists; word break is "Standard".  As for the region:  
United Kingdom (but currency is euro)

> Sys.getenv("LANG") in the GUI, you should get something like:
> > Sys.getenv("LANG")
>          LANG
> "en_US.UTF-8"
>
 > Sys.getenv("LANG")
                       LANG
"en_GB@currency=EUR.UTF-8"


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