[Rd] Re: [R] Internationalization and localization of R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa wrote:

> Prof Brian Ripley writes:
>> - People might like to start organizing translation teams for their own
>>   languages, and early experience from such a team would be helpful in
>>   polishing the instructions and mechanisms.  There is a document for
>>   translators at
>>
>>   http://developer.r-project.org/Translations.html
>>
>>   If translations are available by early April they can be shipped with
>>   2.1.0 (although there are planned to be mechanisms to add them to an R
>>   installation).
>>
>
>        I´ve been playing with the translation files here (I intend to
> to translate the base and recommended packages files to Portuguese), and
> I noticed a minor problem with the instructions detailed in
>
>        http://developer.r-project.org/Translations.html
>
>        Where it says:
>
> " Then compile and install the translated catalogues by
>
> mkdir ../inst/po/LC_MESSAGES/sl
> msgfmt -o ../inst/po/LC_MESSAGES/sl/R-splines.mo R-sl.po
> msgfmt -o ../inst/po/LC_MESSAGES/sl/splines.mo sl.po
> "
>
>        It should read:
>
> "
> (...)
> mkdir ../inst/po/sl/LC_MESSAGES/
> msgfmt -o ../inst/po/sl/LC_MESSAGES/R-splines.mo R-sl.po
> msgfmt -o ../inst/po/sl/LC_MESSAGES/splines.mo sl.po

This has already been corrected, thank you.  The developer site is only 
updated daily.

>        After fixing this I managed to get the gettext translated
> messages to work here.
>
>        On a side note, are there any plans regarding the translation
> of the .Rd documentation files? As much as the translation of
> messages is important, I believe that the online documentation would
> also be an essencial issue.

Not as yet.  That's a much larger task.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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