Bug in 2.4.0 Windows menu setup (PR#9277)

I've tracked down where this is occurring, but I don't know how to fix 
it.  Here's a summary:

If the language in Windows is set to simplified Chinese (i.e. Chinese 
(PRC)) and message translations are installed, then on startup Rgui 
crashes when it tries to install the console popup menu.  The crash 
comes when it gets an error trying to do a conversion using mbrtowc, and 
tries to report it using error(); but the R symbol table is needed for 
that, and it hasn't been set up yet.

I'm not sure which menu entry causes the crash, but I think it's not the 
first, so conceivably this is caused by an error in one of the 
translation files.  Indeed, setting the language to Chinese (Taiwan) works.

I don't know how to debug the translation files, so I'm going to have to 
leave this one for now.  I think Brian Ripley is the only one who 
understands all the details of what goes on in the translations, and 
he's away until Oct 9.

Duncan Murdoch

This morning I downloaded R-2.4.0 and install in under Windows. I customized
the installation and choose "Message translations",but I could not launch
Rgui.exe successfully( Rterm.exe worked fine). If I did't choose "Message
translations", Rgui.exe worked fine.

"Message translations" is Simplified Chinese.

version

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platform       i386-pc-mingw32
arch           i386
os             mingw32
system         i386, mingw32
status
major          2
minor          4.0
year           2006
month          10
day            03
svn rev        39566
language       R
version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)




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