Users in Ukraine & cyrillic support

Hello, everybody:

My friends in Ukraine are starting a research lab at a national
university and they asked what programs to use.  I said "R" of course,
and they then asked me 'what support does it have for Cyrillic'?

The development version (to become 2.1.0) supports a wide variety of 
character encodings and has facilities for translation of error/warning 
messages (though someone still has to do the translation).

See
   http://developer.r-project.org/descriptions.Encodings_and_R.html
and
   http://developer.r-project.org/Translations.html
for some descriptions

Not to mention the problem that the documentation/manuals are in English.

This, of course, is a much bigger job and a more rapidly moving target.


 	-thomas