On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, John Fox wrote:
Dear Brian,
-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 août 2005 01:47
To: John Fox
Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [Rd] Internationalization questions
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, John Fox wrote:
Dear R-devel list members:
I have two internationalization questions, related to
questions that I
posed previously. These pertain to Windows (I've tried under Win XP
but assume the issue is more general) and R 2.1.1 patched
and 2.2.0 devel.
(1) I've noticed that the standard Windows dialogs in R -- whether
initiated from the Rgui menus, from winDialog(), or from tcltk
functions such as
tkmessageBox() -- do not have button labels translated when
running in
a non-English locale. For example, when running in a French locale,
the command
winDialog(type="yesnocancel", message=gettext("Save workspace
image?",
domain="RGui"))
produces a dialog box with the message translated to
"Sauver une image
de la session?", but the buttons still read "Yes", "No",
and "Cancel".
Is this the intended behaviour? Is there any way to get the button
text translated? I've implemented a partial solution that uses a
substitute for tkmessageBox(), but it is a bit awkward.
You need to have Windows set to be in French dialogs, not
just the locale set to French. This is on the second page of
the Regional settings doalogs in WinXP. It is intended, as
it makes all Windows dialogs work consistently. (You can
have different settings on the three pages, but not all
combinations work successfully -- the current rw-FAQ has some
comments.)
On my XP system, the tabs are (in order) Regional Options, Languages, and
Advanced. I have now set all three to "French (Canada)" -- including in the
subdialog produced by the Details button under Languages, and rebooted. I
still get English button labels.
At the bottom of the Languages tab there is a setting for `menus and
dialogs'. I got a short list of languages, e.g. 'francais' for that item.
You have to log out and log in again to make a change stick (and it tells
you that.) That does work for me (and I tested it again before answering
you, and have also tested Italian in the past). I wonder if you have had
to have used that language in a past reboot to make this work ....
Brian
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