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‘icuSetCollate()’ allows ‘locale = "default"’ to use the OS locale collation category, and ‘locale = "none"’ to use OS services rather than ICU for collation.
Environment variable ‘R_ICU_LOCALE’ can be used to set the initial ICU locale, in case the one derived from the OS locale is inappropriate (this is currently necessary on Windows).