[kepler-users] Different behavior of an R script in R terminal and R actor of Kepler

[Josep Maria Campanera Alsina]

Hi all,
I'm working with words with accents (like Artà or Església).

My locale system is set properly as ca_ES.UTF-8 and when I launch R
from terminal it works nicely:

> Sys.getlocale(category="LC_ALL")
[1] "ca_ES.UTF-8/ca_ES.UTF-8/ca_ES.UTF-8/C/ca_ES.UTF-8/ca_ES.UTF-8"
> municipi<-"Artà"
> municipi
[1] "Artà"

But when I run the same script with R actor in Kepler 2.3 the behavior
changes unexpectedly

> Sys.getlocale(category="LC_ALL")
[1] "C"
> municipi<-"Artà"
> municipi
[1] "Art\210"

I've tried to fix the locale settings unsuccesfuly by means of:

1) run the following command at the beginning of my script:
Sys.setlocale(category="LC_CTYPE",locale="ca_ES.UTF-8"). Kepler stops
with an error.

2) edit ~/.Renviron and introduce LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8. Then Kepler stops
with initially at running the script.

It seems that R actor  cannot work with locales different from "C"
since I've switched to en_US.UTF-8 and it doesn't work neither. Any
clue how to fix that? All comments welcome.

Find attached the small workflow to test that.

All the best,

Josep Maria Campanera,
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