[R] translation

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 20/05/2012 00:01, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 12-05-18 2:23 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>> On May 18, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>
>>> 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.

I don't know that we do either, but as messages are just streams of 
bytes, their direction is not relevant at the translation stage.  What 
is relevant is how the translated messages are displayed, and we do have 
experience with that in Hebrew.   We don't have an OS mentioned here: as 
I wrote to you privately, experience suggests that Hebrew is displayed 
correctly in Linux, but mixed English-Hebrew lines are not on Windows.

> 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
>>
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> West Hartford, CT


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