RStudio data viewer showing Greek characters instead of English

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Hi,
I am a newbie, loading data (data(iris)) into R. Everything is fine but when I do View(iris), the Species names are shown in a different language. Wondering if there's a bug or something? Please see an example below.

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Here's a link to the same issue - unresolved!!

Some system details that might be helpful:
R version 4.0.1 (2020-06-06)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18362)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252

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I have something interesting to share. May be, you can look at it with your expert eye to nail the issue. Here's what I found. I right clicked on the line Showing 1 to 20 of 150 entries, 5 total columns and inspected in Styles (in DevTools) the last piece of code (body{}) which has font-family in it. The list in font-family is 'DejaVu Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif . When I remove/delete 'DejaVu Sans' from the list, the font in the table appears in English. It seems as if there's something wrong with the 'DejaVu Sans' font(?)

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Here's a link to the same issue - unresolved!!

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Hi Everyone,
I am desperately for a solution to my problem. Can someone look into this please?

cheers

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Hi,

Sorry it has taken such a long time for anyone to respond! I must say however that I myself have no clue how to solve this, but I escalated this issue to the RStudio team and hopefully someone there can help you out.

Fingers crossed
PJ

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Thanks for noting this. The RStudio IDE team is aware of the issue and working on it.

Here's the github issue where it's being tracked.

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Hi PJ and EconomiCurtis,
Thanks for responding. Will appreciate if this could be fixed or a solution is provided.

Regards,
Shurli

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Hello everyone,
Any luck??