Set locale to system default UTF-8
Answering my own question: On Ubuntu the default LANG is defined in /etc/default/locale: jeroen@dev:~⟫ cat /etc/default/locale # Created by cloud-init v. 0.7.7 on Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:02:51 +0000 LANG=”en_US.UTF-8″ So in R we could do something like: readRenviron(“/etc/default/locale”) LANG <- Sys.getenv(“LANG”) if(nchar(LANG)) Sys.setlocale(“LC_ALL”, LANG) Apache also has a line in /etc/apache2/envvars that can be … Read more