The correct fix, I believe, is to set the language of your interface (not document) to Default in preferences. This will at least enable R to read the Rnw document correctly. Then everything becomes a LaTeX problem (you can use other special packages, or xelatex).
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Etienne B. Racine <etienn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, this is a follow up of ticket 7741[1]. > > As I understand it, it is possible to fix the locale problem by setting the > encoding to ASCII [2] when setting language to something else than English, > or leaving the language to default. However, when the accents are in a > sweave chunk, e.g. for commenting, this is not fixed by the encoding. Are > there any detailed procedure to fix this issue ? Or any thoughts on what I > could try ? I've tried using xelatex, but it didn't work. > > Is it possible to make succeed loading all the LC_X... ? > > 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_PAPER failed, using "C" > > 6: Setting LC_PAPER failed, using "C" > > > Thanks, > Etienne > > [1] http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7741 > [2] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/70185 >