Users in Ukraine & cyrillic support
Paul Johnson <pauljohn at ku.edu> writes:
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'? i've done some snooping in the R website and all the references i find to foreign languages concern c and fortran, not Ukrainian or Russian. Since i'm an English-only user, I have no idea what is involved here, or what difficulties might be caused with non-English character sets and file systems. Not to mention the problem that the documentation/manuals are in English. If you have any advice that I can collect up for my friends, I would appreciate it.
Well, you're probably not going to find someone to translate the manual into Ukrainian outside Ukraine... The good news is that, due to our indefatigueable mr. Ripley, R-2.1.0 will have support for UTF-8, including Cyrillic. It will also have some support for message catalogs and the potential to change the GUI language. Check out the NEWS file in R-devel (https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS).
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