R devel - Dec 2004 - Broken Korean Language in New vesrion of R 2.0.1 (PR#7411)

Full_Name: Yoon Dong Lee
Version: R 2.0.1
OS: Windows
Submission from: (NULL) (203.252.165.51)



Dear the manager;

Recently, I found a small but big new bug in R 2.0.1.
Korean Language is shown as broken in R Gui terminal.
R 1.9.1 had not the problem, but R 2.0.1 makes the 
problem. Korean is one of 2-byte character system, 
and is supported in Unicode (of 3 byte). I don't know
why new version of R makes new problem. 

Please fix this bug for all Korean using population, more 
than 1/60 of the world population.

If you need more detail report, please ask to me via e-mail.
If you let me know your address, I can send the pictures 
illustrating the bug.

Sincerely yours.

YDL

There is no intention that either 2-byte or 3-byte encodings work, and 
nowhere was it documented that they did.  So it would *not* be a bug for 
something undocumented to stop working, but then neither was it 
deliberate.

We do need a more detailed bug report (and the FAQ asks for one, the first 
time).  If perchance you are referring to the fact that print() now 
interprets some characters in octal, this is a bug in some versions of 
Windows and has been worked around in the current R-patched available from 
CRAN.  Please try that before responding.

Otherwise we will need you to debug this using the sources and provide a 
patch against the current R-patched sources, as none of the R developers 
have a Korean-language version of Windows.

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 poisson@dreamwiz.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Yoon Dong Lee
> Version: R 2.0.1
> OS: Windows
That's a group of operating systems.  Please be more specific.
> Submission from: (NULL) (203.252.165.51)
>
>
>
> Dear the manager;
You have written to the R developers, a group of unpaid volunteers.
> Recently, I found a small but big new bug in R 2.0.1.
> Korean Language is shown as broken in R Gui terminal.
> R 1.9.1 had not the problem, but R 2.0.1 makes the
> problem. Korean is one of 2-byte character system,
> and is supported in Unicode (of 3 byte). I don't know
> why new version of R makes new problem.
>
> Please fix this bug for all Korean using population, more
> than 1/60 of the world population.
>
> If you need more detail report, please ask to me via e-mail.
> If you let me know your address, I can send the pictures
> illustrating the bug.
>
> Sincerely yours.
>
> YDL
>
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