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Problem with Chinese characters
I'm not sure whether this is a bug for REditorSupport/vscode-R, R languageserver packages, or miss settings in vscode.
Description of Problem:
When I wrote an R program that included Chinese characters, the Chinese characters were automatically transformed into unicode.
before:
library(openxlsx)
read.xlsx("中文.xlsx")
after:
library(openxlsx)
read.xlsx("<U+4E2D><U+6587>.xlsx")
Environment (please complete the following information):
OS: Windwos 10 VSCode Version: 1.76.0 R Version: 4.1.3 vscode-R version: v2.7.2
Other Settings:
R>Lsp:Enabled Enable the R language service to provide code analysis features completion,signature,hover,diagnostics,definition,etc.)
r$> sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.3 (2022-03-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19044)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
[2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
[3] LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils
[5] datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.3 cli_3.6.0
[3] jsonlite_1.8.4 rlang_1.0.6
The problem has been resolved after the windows display language in Windows 10 was set to Chinese characters.
You might want to try "BETA: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" in the Windows locale settings. Not sure if it helps.
You might want to try "BETA: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" in the Windows locale settings. Not sure if it helps.
Thank you for your suggesting. Unfortunately, I have already tried that and it did not solve the issue I was having. It might be due to the languageserver package which looks for the OS language settings before the system locale for the R session.
One solution to the problem was to place the Sys.setlocale settings before the langserver_library setting in the "Rprofile.site" or ".Rprofile" file.
local({
Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","Chinese")
Sys.setenv(LANG = "zh_CN.UTF-8")
})
options(langserver_library = '...{path to languageserver}/languageserver')
Just want to clarify, the issue happened when you set the display language to English? How come you have locale "Chinese (Simplified)_China.936" in an English environment? Did you specify it in your R profile?
It was a well known issue on Windows. https://kevinushey.github.io/blog/2018/02/21/string-encoding-and-r/ not sure it is still the case.
Maybe it is styler to blame?
Randy
