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Users in Ukraine & cyrillic support

4 messages · Paul Johnson, Brian Ripley, Thomas Lumley +1 more

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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.
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As from the next release it has support of almost all human languages.
Previews of that are available now.
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Paul Johnson wrote:

            

  
    
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Paul Johnson wrote:

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


 	-thomas
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Paul Johnson <pauljohn at ku.edu> writes:
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).