[R] translation

[David Winsemius]

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.

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
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