[R] displaying Cyrillic in RGui under Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Roger Levy wrote:

> I have a data frame with Cyrillic text that I would like to be able to
> view under RGui.  Unfortunately I can't figure out from the manuals how
> to make this happen -- can someone point me in the right direction?

You can only do this if you run RGui in a Cyrillic locale.  Unfortunately 
there are several incompatible Cyrillic encodings, so let's hope this is 
the Windows one.  If so, set Windows to Russian as per the rw-FAQ, select 
LANGUAGE=en and it should work.

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