This functions changes your session's locale to address issues with printing histograms on Windows on versions of R below 4.2.1.
Details
There are known issues with printing the spark-histogram characters when printing a data frame, appearing like this: "<U+2582><U+2585><U+2587>". This longstanding problem originates in the low-level code for printing dataframes. This was addressed in R version 4.2.1.