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The management of translations has been converted to R code: see ‘?tools::update_pkg_po’.
The translations for the R interpreter and ‘RGui.exe’ are now part of the ‘base’ package (rather than having sources in directory ‘po’ and being installed to ‘share/locale’. Thus the ‘base’ package supports three translation domains, ‘R-base’, ‘R’ and ‘RGui’.