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Strange locale problems in RStudio after update to OsX Mojave #3587

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bakaburg1 opened this issue Oct 3, 2018 · 18 comments
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Strange locale problems in RStudio after update to OsX Mojave #3587

bakaburg1 opened this issue Oct 3, 2018 · 18 comments
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bakaburg1 commented Oct 3, 2018

I'm having strange problems with RStudio after updating to OsX Mojave.

When I start up a RStudio project I get:

    During startup - Warning messages:
    1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C" 
    2: Setting LC_COLLATE failed, using "C" 
    3: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C" 
    4: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C" 
    5: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C" 

Then, if I source() R files with non-english characters like accented vowels, I get an error if I don't remove the encoding = 'UTF-8' option.

If I use the View function special characters get encoded, so àèòù become <c3><a0><c3><a8><c3><b2><c3><b9>

Using plain R I don't get any errors.

How can I solve this? it's pretty annoying especially when save/sourcing R files from RStudio, since it puts encoding = 'UTF-8' by default.

diagnostics-report.txt

System details

RStudio Edition : Desktop
RStudio Version : 1.1.456 
OS Version      :  OsX 10.14
R Version       : 3.5.1
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS  10.14

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] RSQLite_2.1.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] httr_1.3.1         magic_1.5-8        ddalpha_1.3.4      tidyr_0.8.1        jsonlite_1.5       sfsmisc_1.1-2      bit64_0.9-7        splines_3.5.1     
 [9] foreach_1.4.4      prodlim_2018.04.18 assertthat_0.2.0   stats4_3.5.1       DRR_0.0.3          blob_1.1.1         yaml_2.2.0         robustbase_0.93-1 
[17] ipred_0.9-6        pillar_1.2.3       backports_1.1.2    lattice_0.20-35    glue_1.2.0         digest_0.6.16      colorspace_1.3-2   recipes_0.1.3     
[25] Matrix_1.2-14      plyr_1.8.4         timeDate_3043.102  pkgconfig_2.0.2    CVST_0.2-2         wesanderson_0.3.6  broom_0.5.0        earth_4.6.3       
[33] caret_6.0-80       purrr_0.2.5        scales_1.0.0       gower_0.1.2        lava_1.6.2         TeachingDemos_2.10 tibble_1.4.2       ggplot2_3.0.0     
[41] withr_2.1.2        nnet_7.3-12        lazyeval_0.2.1     survival_2.42-3    magrittr_1.5       memoise_1.1.0      nlme_3.1-137       MASS_7.3-50       
[49] dimRed_0.1.0       class_7.3-14       tools_3.5.1        stringr_1.3.1      kernlab_0.9-26     munsell_0.5.0      plotrix_3.7-2      bindrcpp_0.2.2    
[57] pls_2.6-0          compiler_3.5.1     RcppRoll_0.3.0     rlang_0.2.2        plotmo_3.4.2       grid_3.5.1         iterators_1.0.9    geometry_0.3-6    
[65] gtable_0.2.0       ModelMetrics_1.1.0 codetools_0.2-15   abind_1.4-5        DBI_1.0.0          reshape2_1.4.3     R6_2.2.2           lubridate_1.7.4   
[73] dplyr_0.7.6        bit_1.1-14         bindr_0.1.1        stringi_1.2.3      Rcpp_0.12.18       rpart_4.1-13       DEoptimR_1.0-8     tidyselect_0.2.4 
@kevinushey
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What do you see in a terminal if you run locale -a? Do you get a large set of locales printed out?

The diagnostics report contains this:

$LANG
[1] "en_IT.UTF-8"

$LC_CTYPE
[1] "en_IT.UTF-8"

Are those locales available on your system? In the Language and Region macOS preferences pane, what do you have set as the current region?

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Looks like you cross-posted this. Please don't do this (it duplicates the effort from those who try to help you). https://community.rstudio.com/t/strange-locale-problems-in-r-after-update-to-mojave/15533/6

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Sorry for cross posting. At the beginning I thought it was an R problem, then I realized it was RStudio specific so I decided to post it as an issue here.

en_IT.UTF-8 is not in the list produced by locale -a and actually it wouldn't make sense if it was because it would be an "Italian sublanguage of English" (WTF??)! The right locale should be it_IT.UTF-8.

The question now is why RStudio is using this hybrid locale since mac os update. The language in the preference pane is ok and the problem seems limited to RStudio. I also updated RStudio to the last version but nothing changed.

@bakaburg1
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I know that the issue is closed but I found a workaround. (posted also on https://community.rstudio.com/t/strange-locale-problems-in-r-after-update-to-mojave/15533/7)

The problem is confirmed running Sys.getenv()

LANG                                           en_IT.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE                                       en_IT.UTF-8

I don't really know where these setting come from.

The workaround to make everything work is using Sys.setlocale(locale = 'en_US.UTF-8'). But I think it's a problem of RStudio interacting with Mojave.

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Looks like you cross-posted this. Please don't do this (it duplicates the effort from those who try to help you). https://community.rstudio.com/t/strange-locale-problems-in-r-after-update-to-mojave/15533/6

@kevinushey Why the issue was closed? Even if I found a workaround the issue is not solved and is probably RStudio related!

@kevinushey kevinushey reopened this Oct 5, 2018
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Thanks. I was able to confirm the issue by changing my laptop's region to Italy and attempting to launch RStudio. We'll try to investigate further and figure out what's going on.

@kevinushey kevinushey added this to the v1.2 milestone Oct 5, 2018
@kevinushey kevinushey self-assigned this Oct 5, 2018
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After setting up the region, the system does update the notion of the locale:

$ defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale
en_IT

which is odd, since this locale does not exist. I suspect this is where RStudio is getting its notion of the 'default' locale from.

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Running the same code I get it_IT though. And the problem doesn't show up with standalone R.

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I looked into this more deeply; the issue appears to be that some internal macOS APIs ([NSLocale currentLocale]) always reports the current locale with an en_ prefix, even if the current keyboard layout is set to a non-English layout. defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale does appear to return the correct output.

This should be fixed in the latest daily builds (http://dailies.rstudio.com); we'd appreciate it if you could install and let us know if the problem indeed does appear to be fixed.

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Apparently the problem seems fixed in the daily! Thanks!

(OT: when I installed the new version the code font reverted to the default, not a big deal, I just wanted to report it. The other settings seem ok)

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Phew, glad to hear it!

I'm not sure what would've caused the code font to revert but if the newly-set code font does persist on new restarts of RStudio then I think it's okay.

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bakaburg1 commented Oct 8, 2018 via email

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Could you file that as a new issue here on GitHub?

Any chance you could share the project sources wherein you're seeing this issue?

@bakaburg1
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One of them yes, no sensitive data/code yet. how should I do it? just upload the project?

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You can use some cloud service (e.g. Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive) to share an archive of the project.

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ok thanks

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I don't know what to say. The problem disappeared, on all project. I'm not able to reproduce it anymore...

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ronblum commented Oct 26, 2018

Fix confirmed in RStudio MacOS Desktop 1.1.463. The test was conducted using the following code in a file saved in UTF-8:

print("Dear John")
print("àèòù")
print("Hi there!")

The results were

> print("Dear John")
[1] "Dear John"
> print("àèòù")
[1] "àèòù"
> print("Hi there!")
[1] "Hi there!"

Running this code with English (en_EN), French (fr_FR). and mixed English/French (en_FR). I used French instead of Italian becauseI know how to speak French but not Italian, and I needed a language I understood in order to navigate through menus.

If you find that this is still not working, please update the this ticket. Grazie!

@dfalty dfalty added the verified label Nov 6, 2018
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