[R] Users in Ukraine & cyrillic support

[Peter Dalgaard]

Paul Johnson <pauljohn at ku.edu> writes:

> 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.


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).


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