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7 Internationalization and Localization
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_Internationalization_ refers to the process of enabling support for
many human languages, and _localization_ to adapting to a specific
country and language.

   Current builds of R support all the character sets that the
underlying OS can handle.  These are interpreted according to the
current 'locale', a sufficiently complicated topic to merit a separate
section.  Note though that R has no built-in support for right-to-left
languages and bidirectional output, relying on the OS services.  For
example, how character vectors in UTF-8 containing both English digits
and Hebrew characters are printed is OS-dependent (and perhaps
locale-dependent).

   The other aspect of the internationalization is support for the
translation of messages.  This is enabled in almost all builds of R.

Locales

Localization of messages