On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 10/6/2006 1:35 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> Duncan Murdoch wrote: >>> On 2006-10-5 8:06, Ei-ji Nakama wrote: >>>> I do not understand Chinese, but recognize kanji. >>>> RGui-zh_CN.po is written in utf-8, but charset=CP936 wrote. >>>> >>>> perl -p -i -e 's#charset=CP936#charset=utf-8#' RGui-zh_CN.po >>>> msgfmt -o RGui.mo RGui-zh_CN.po >>> >>> Thanks!! That does fix the error, at least on my system. I'll commit >>> the change to R-devel and R-patched. >> >> Hmm, I do understand Chinese, and I can confirm that the content >> of RGui-zh_CN.po in R 2.4 is in utf-8 rather than CP936. >> >> I can also confirm that CP950(big5) for RGui-zh_TW.po is correct, and >> CP932(shift-JIS) for RGui-ja.po is also correct. (so you'll need to >> find some korean to verify CP949 for RGui-ko.po). >> >> However, the fix is slightly "asymmetric". Out of ru, zh_CN, zh_TW, >> ja, ko, only ru in R-2.4.0/po/*.po is in localised encoding, >> (the others 4 in UTF-8), whereas RGui-*.po, after the fix, all >> are in localised encoding except RGui-zh_CN.po . >> >> I would propose correcting the encoding of the *content*, rather >> than the charset tag, so that Rgui-* all uses localised ones (CP932, >> CP936, CP949, CP950). That should be better for older windows...
That was the intention, but the translator marked it incorrectly, and it appeared to be valid CP936 so not picked up by me. > I did try that, but iconv didn't want to convert the file from UTF-8 to > CP936. I've no idea why not. > > In any case, those files only need to be readable by the translation > teams, not by end-users, so I don't think the asymmetry matters: if a > translator finds it easy to work in UTF-8 that's fine for R, as long as > it is correctly recorded. Not really: the file does need to be convertible to the target encoding, and on Windows that is e.g. CP936. That is why we have the RGui files in the native encoding: for all the other files we prefer UTF-8 or Latin-1. I need to sort out with the translator a valid CP936 version of that file: it contains a character that is not in CP936. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
