| Language files for Vim |
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| Translated menus |
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| The contents of each menu file is a sequence of lines with "menutrans" |
| commands. Read one of the existing files to get an idea of how this works. |
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| More information in the on-line help: |
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| :help multilang-menus |
| :help :menutrans |
| :help 'langmenu' |
| :help :language |
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| The "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim" file will search for a menu translation file. This |
| depends on the value of the "v:lang" variable. |
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| "menu_" . v:lang . ".vim" |
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| When the 'menutrans' option is set, its value will be used instead of v:lang. |
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| The file name is always lower case. It is the full name as the ":language" |
| command shows (the LC_MESSAGES value). |
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| For example, to use the Big5 (Taiwan) menus on MS-Windows the $LANG will be |
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| Chinese(Taiwan)_Taiwan.950 |
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| and use the menu translation file: |
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| $VIMRUNTIME/lang/menu_chinese(taiwan)_taiwan.950.vim |
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| On Unix you should set $LANG, depending on your shell: |
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| csh/tcsh: setenv LANG "zh_TW.Big5" |
| sh/bash/ksh: export LANG="zh_TW.Big5" |
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| and the menu translation file is: |
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| $VIMRUNTIME/lang/menu_zh_tw.big5.vim |
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| The menu translation file should set the "did_menu_trans" variable so that Vim |
| will not load another file. |
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| AUTOMATIC CONVERSION |
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| When Vim was compiled with multi-byte support, conversion between latin1 and |
| UTF-8 will always be possible. Other conversions depend on the iconv |
| library, which is not always available. |
| For UTF-8 menu files which only use latin1 characters, you can rely on Vim |
| doing the conversion. Let the UTF-8 menu file source the latin1 menu file, |
| and put "scriptencoding latin1" in that one. |
| Other conversions may not always be available (e.g., between iso-8859-# and |
| MS-Windows codepages), thus the converted menu file must be available. |
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| Translated messages |
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| This requires doing "make install" in the "src" directory. It will compile |
| the portable files "src/po/*.po" into binary ".mo" files and place them in the |
| right directory. |