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Dear Sir/Madam
I am a BSc student studying statistics in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad,Iran.
Translating R messages to Farsi is my thesis and I have already downloaded *poEdit*  to translate those messages.However, the created .mo files for R.pot and RGui.pot are not useful at all.
I would like to be informed if there is something wrong with right-to-left encoding or Farsi fonts or Farsi support.
I am eagerly looking forward to hearing from you soon.
I greatly appreciate the assistance you may provided me.

Could you please repost to the R-devel list, with some more details?  As 
far as I know Farsi would be our first right-to-left language, so I'd 
expect problems.  I don't know if they are solvable with a reasonable 
effort, but that's the place to get started.

Examples of details:

Do other displays of Farsi strings in R work properly?  e.g.
cat("some Farsi string") or print("some Farsi string").

Can readLine() read a text file with Farsi text and display it properly?

What is the usual encoding used for Farsi text?

Duncan Murdoch