gettext weirdness
The 'wierdness' is that 'R' is a domain of C messages and you are trying to use it from R. How messages are massaged before being sent for translation depends on the language, including how trailing spaces are handled. There is no reason to expect domains intended for C code to work in R-level gettext(), nor in stop() etc. This was really an R-devel question: see the posting guide.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Florent Angly wrote:
Hi, I am trying to use the gettext() function to translate some text. I have never used this function before, so, it's entirely possible that I am doing something wrong. The issue that I am encountering is that gettext() properly translates some text, but not some other. Natural language was compiled in my R (installed from the Debian repositories): $ R R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows" [...] Natural language support but running in an English locale [...]
q()
Here is some text that has some translation in the file ./po/fr.po: #: src/main/errors.c:290 msgid "invalid option \"warning.expression\"" msgstr "option incorrecte \"warning.expression\"" [...] #: src/main/errors.c:582 msgid "Error in " msgstr "Erreur dans " Start R in French and see if I can get something translated to French: $ LANG=fr_FR.UTF8 R
stop('This is an error')
Erreur : This is an error
bindtextdomain("R") # does not seem necessary, but just to be safe...
[1] "/usr/share/R/share/locale"
gettext("Error in ", domain="R")
[1] "Error in "
"invalid option \"warning.expression\"" -> msg; gettext(msg, domain="R")
[1] "option incorrecte \"warning.expression\""
So, the stop() function successfully translates. I can also manually
translate some entries, but why can does it not work for gettext("Error in ",
domain="R")?
Any idea?
Thanks
Florent
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