Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately, I cannot read any right-to-left languages besides the bug I mentioned. But I work in a multilingual environment (newsroom in 10 languages) with arabic journalists but no arabic programmer. I will try find reaching out for R programmers fluent in these languages.
I think however that this bug could be addressed even without any knowledge of a right-to-left language. From this simple example (http://rpubs.com/d-qn/170211), one could immediately see that the xlab text provided got inverted when plotted. FYI, I have thrown texts in all kinds of non-latin alphabets (cyrillic, japanese, chinese, … ) and it works fine. Only right-to-left on mac seems broken when plotting (in base graphics, ggplot2, ...) but it is handled correctly otherwise (for instance assigning RTL text to a variable and then printing that variable in the console). Duc-Quang Nguyen On 12 Apr 2016, at 00:48, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com<mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 11/04/2016 12:45 PM, Nguyen, Duc-Quang (swissinfo) wrote: Hello, [I am resubmitting this issue because my previous email has its non-latin characters incorrectly displayed on r-sig-mac, which defeats the illustration of the bug...] I am wondering if there is a way to support right-to-left languages (arabic, hebrew, …) in R on Mac? There is mac-only bug that messes up right-to-left languages in all graphics. This illustrated in this short RPubs: http://rpubs.com/d-qn/170211 None of the R Core developers are native speakers of languages that use right-to-left writing, and (I think) none of us can even read a bit of them. So you're likely to have some difficulty with this request. I'd suggest contacting someone on one of the translation teams (listed at http://developer.r-project.org/TranslationTeams.html), but I don't see any right to left languages there, so they may not be any more help. This indicates to me that we have a need for expertise in this area. Do you have experience programming with these languages, or do you have contacts with people who do? Duncan Murdoch [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
