[R] translation

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12-05-18 2:23 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
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> On May 18, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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>> On 12-05-18 5:15 AM, gholi bahrami wrote:
>>> Dear Sir/Madam
>>> I am a BSc student studying statistics in Ferdowsi University of
>>> Mashhad,Iran.
>>> Translating R messages to Farsi is my thesis and I have already
>>> downloaded *poEdit*  to translate those messages.However, the
>>> created .mo files for R.pot and RGui.pot are not useful at all.
>>> I would like to be informed if there is something wrong with right-
>>> to-left encoding or Farsi fonts or Farsi support.
>>> I am eagerly looking forward to hearing from you soon.
>>> I greatly appreciate the assistance you may provided me.
>>
>> Could you please repost to the R-devel list, with some more
>> details?  As far as I know Farsi would be our first right-to-left
>> language, so I'd expect problems.
>
> Hebrew? We had an earlier question relating to plotting displays about
> right-to-left displaying Hebrew text improperly, but as far as I know
> the console displays were working properly.

I don't think we have Hebrew translations of messages, but I might be 
wrong about that.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> A search for "right-to-left" with RSeek suggests you may get some
> support with package:ISOcodes.
>
> However, I do not see Farsi in the list of languages supported at:
>
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt
>
> But my knowledge in this area is very skimpy and the glyph-set needed
> may go by another name.
>
>>   I don't know if they are solvable with a reasonable effort, but
>> that's the place to get started.
>>
>> Examples of details:
>>
>> Do other displays of Farsi strings in R work properly?  e.g.
>> cat("some Farsi string") or print("some Farsi string").
>>
>> Can readLine() read a text file with Farsi text and display it
>> properly?
>>
>> What is the usual encoding used for Farsi text?
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
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> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
>