On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:
On 21 Apr 2008, at 12:33, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Is it possible to download a compiled snapshot of 2.7.0 for Windows XP?
Yes, http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html
And it is due for release tomorrow.
Many thanks! I can see the progress :)
But please forgive my incompetence. I'm not so familiar with Windows.
If I start e.g. RGUI by using: Rgui.exe LC_CTYPE=ja I can type Japanese,
Russian, and German. strsplit works perfectly! ;)
But if I type for instance a German umlaut 'ΓΌ' it comes out as 'u'. OK, it is
due to the fact I didn't set up Rgui in UTF-8 mode.
Entering at the keyboard in more than one language is close to impossible
(not quite, as 'Japanese' covers a few but you need a Japanese keyboard to
do it). You can't change the language of Windows just by setting locales.
But how can I do this? My data are written in many different languages, and I
want to do some statistics.
You can read in files in known encodings, though.
R version 2.7.0 RC (2008-04-19 r45391)
i386-pc-mingw32
locales:
all to German_Germany.1252
LC_CTYPE=Japanese_Japan.932
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There are some minor issues.
I set Rgui's font to "Arial Unicode". This works but I have some troubles to
place my cursor, caused by the issue that Arial Unicode is not a monospaced
font.
Right, and you are warned not to do that. You must use a fixed-width
font, and for CJK characters, one in the standard single/double spacing.
(See for example the comments in Rconsole and rw-FAQ 3.5. The GUI
preferrences dialog only offers fixed-width fonts, so you have to work
quite hard to do anything else.)
If I start up Rgui in German, I can see the localized menu items, but for
each non-ASCII character I see cryptic things. It seems to me that the
localized strings are written in UTF-8, and Rgui expects ANSI characters.
Argh, yes, that was an error by the translator in marking the file --
thanks, I just have time to fix it. (RGui does not expect ANSI, but all
of R does expect translations to be in the encoding they are declared to
be-- this eas declared as ISO-8859-1.)
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Nevertheless, thanks a lot!
--Hans
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