On 07/05/2018 10:19, Michel Lang wrote:
After a quick look into the source of base64enc, I noticed that base64enc doesn't convert the input/output to UTF8 which then leads to problems in your locale. I guess that Simon (CCed) forgot to throw in some translateCharUTF8() and mkCharCE() calls.
Maybe something like this is needed? https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-testthat/commit/777df340e9ce67320b2d525967d5b021bb3a7587IIRC, there were autopkgtests from some other r-* packages failing similarly in Ubuntu recently.