[Rd] Bug in 2.4.0 Windows menu setup (PR#9277)

[Ei-ji Nakama]

I do not understand Chinese, but recognize kanji.
RGui-zh_CN.po is written in utf-8, but charset=CP936 wrote.

  perl -p -i -e 's#charset=CP936#charset=utf-8#' RGui-zh_CN.po
  msgfmt -o RGui.mo RGui-zh_CN.po

2006/10/5, murdoch at stats.uwo.ca <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>:
> I've tracked down where this is occurring, but I don't know how to fix
> it.  Here's a summary:
>
> If the language in Windows is set to simplified Chinese (i.e. Chinese
> (PRC)) and message translations are installed, then on startup Rgui
> crashes when it tries to install the console popup menu.  The crash
> comes when it gets an error trying to do a conversion using mbrtowc, and
> tries to report it using error(); but the R symbol table is needed for
> that, and it hasn't been set up yet.
>
> I'm not sure which menu entry causes the crash, but I think it's not the
> first, so conceivably this is caused by an error in one of the
> translation files.  Indeed, setting the language to Chinese (Taiwan) works.
>
> I don't know how to debug the translation files, so I'm going to have to
> leave this one for now.  I think Brian Ripley is the only one who
> understands all the details of what goes on in the translations, and
> he's away until Oct 9.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> On 10/3/2006 9:00 PM, ronggui wrote:
> > This morning I downloaded R-2.4.0 and install in under Windows. I customized
> > the installation and choose "Message translations",but I could not launch
> > Rgui.exe successfully( Rterm.exe worked fine). If I did't choose "Message
> > translations", Rgui.exe worked fine.
> >
> > "Message translations" is Simplified Chinese.
> >
> >> version
> >                _
> > platform       i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch           i386
> > os             mingw32
> > system         i386, mingw32
> > status
> > major          2
> > minor          4.0
> > year           2006
> > month          10
> > day            03
> > svn rev        39566
> > language       R
> > version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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