Review default LC_ALL setting #507
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I did not know devtools was forcing the locale to be C, which is a bad idea. I believe it makes a lot of sense to remove this restriction. The locale can be temporarily set to C in a few cases to ensure consistency, such as sorting, but in general, the C locale will make R unable to read/write Unicode characters correctly. |
I made it C a long time ago because that's what CRAN used to use - and I had a horrible problem that took hours to resolve. But I now think that time has passed :) |
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Now that all cran check machines run in UTF-8.
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