Print spark histograms in Emacs ESS

[vinhdizzo]

Hi,

Any thoughts on how best to get Emacs ESS to print the spark histograms on Windows? My guess is Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "Chinese") is still needed. Thank you!

[elinw]

Did you try it?

[vinhdizzo]

Yes, I did, but it did not print properly. Curious if anyone got it to work. My guess is the font also needs to be changed in Emacs. I will do some research on how to do this. Will try deja Vu sans when I get the font installed.

[elinw]

Okay when you get a chance if you can give some screen shots that would be great.

[vinhdizzo]

Here's my update. I am using the DejaVu Sans font in emacs via the following setting in my init.el file: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "DejaVu Sans-12").

This is the display in emacs ESS:

This is the display after setting the Chinese locale:

Note that I also cannot get the display correct in the regular R windows console (not RStudio). Any thoughts?

[elinw]

Thanks!
I found an old document here http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/ess/ess-manual.pdf
that says

ESS[R]: now works better when UTF-8 locale is active; in particular, you get
correct directional quotes in R’s startup message for R-devel (unstable development
version of R 2.1.0) when using environment variables LANGUAGE=en@quot
LC ALL=en US.UTF-8

Do you want to try that? I see other people with unanswered questions about this issue. Somehow it must be applying the format() function again.

[vinhdizzo]

@elinw I had previously responded to your latest response but just realized it never went through. In short, I do have those environment variables set up but no cigar.

[elinw]

I'm going to close this since no progress in over a year and it is basically a part of the larger issue of UTF-8 on windows.