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*<A NAME="mlang.txt"></A><B>mlang.txt</B>*     For Vim version 8.0.  Last change: 2017 Mar 04


		  VIM REFERENCE MANUAL    by <A HREF="intro.html#Bram">Bram</A> <A HREF="intro.html#Moolenaar">Moolenaar</A>



Multi-language features				*<A NAME="multilang"></A><B>multilang</B>* *<A NAME="multi-lang"></A><B>multi-lang</B>*

This is about using <A HREF="message.html#messages">messages</A> and <A HREF="gui.html#menus">menus</A> in various languages.  For editing
<A HREF="mbyte.html#multi-byte">multi-byte</A> text see |<A HREF="mbyte.html#multibyte">multibyte</A>|.

The basics are explained in the user manual: |<A HREF="usr_45.html">usr_45.txt</A>|.

1. Messages			|<A HREF="#multilang-messages">multilang-messages</A>|
2. Menus			|<A HREF="#multilang-menus">multilang-menus</A>|
3. Scripts			|<A HREF="#multilang-scripts">multilang-scripts</A>|

Also see |<A HREF="helphelp.html#help-translated">help-translated</A>| for multi-language help.

{Vi does not have any of these features}
{not available when compiled without the |<A HREF="various.html#+multi_lang">+multi_lang</A>| feature}

==============================================================================

1. Messages						*<A NAME="multilang-messages"></A><B>multilang-messages</B>*

Vim picks up the <A HREF="mbyte.html#locale">locale</A> from the environment.  In most cases this means Vim
will use the language that you prefer, unless it's not available.

To see a <A HREF="eval.html#list">list</A> of supported <A HREF="mbyte.html#locale">locale</A> names on your system, look in one of these
directories (for Unix):
<B><FONT COLOR="PURPLE">	/usr/lib/locale </FONT></B>
<B><FONT COLOR="PURPLE">	/usr/share/locale </FONT></B>
Unfortunately, upper/lowercase differences matter.  Also watch out for the
use of &quot;<A HREF="motion.html#-">-</A>&quot; and &quot;<A HREF="motion.html#_">_</A>&quot;.


					    *<A NAME=":lan"></A><B>:lan</B>* *<A NAME=":lang"></A><B>:lang</B>* *<A NAME=":language"></A><B>:language</B>* *<A NAME="E197"></A><B>E197</B>*
:lan[guage]
:lan[guage] mes[sages]
:lan[guage] cty[pe]
:lan[guage] tim[e]
			Print the current language (aka <A HREF="mbyte.html#locale">locale</A>).
			With the &quot;<A HREF="message.html#messages">messages</A>&quot; argument the language used for
			<A HREF="message.html#messages">messages</A> is printed.  Technical: LC_MESSAGES.
			With the &quot;ctype&quot; argument the language used for
			character encoding is printed.  Technical: LC_CTYPE.
			With the &quot;time&quot; argument the language used for
			<A HREF="eval.html#strftime()">strftime()</A> is printed.  Technical: LC_TIME.
			Without argument all parts of the <A HREF="mbyte.html#locale">locale</A> are printed
			(this is system dependent).
			The current language can also be obtained with the
			|<A HREF="eval.html#v:lang">v:lang</A>|, |<A HREF="eval.html#v:ctype">v:ctype</A>| and |<A HREF="eval.html#v:lc_time">v:lc_time</A>| <A HREF="eval.html#variables">variables</A>.

:lan[guage] {name}
:lan[guage] mes[sages] {name}
:lan[guage] cty[pe] {name}
:lan[guage] tim[e] {name}
			Set the current language (aka <A HREF="mbyte.html#locale">locale</A>) to {name}.
			The <A HREF="mbyte.html#locale">locale</A> {name} must be a valid <A HREF="mbyte.html#locale">locale</A> on your
			system.  Some systems accept aliases like &quot;en&quot; or
			&quot;en_US&quot;, but some only accept the full specification
			like &quot;en_US.ISO_8859-1&quot;.  On <A HREF="os_unix.html#Unix">Unix</A> systems you can use
			this command to see what locales are supported:
<B>				:!locale -a</B>
 			With the &quot;<A HREF="message.html#messages">messages</A>&quot; argument the language used for
			<A HREF="message.html#messages">messages</A> is set.  This can be different when you want,
			for example, English <A HREF="message.html#messages">messages</A> while editing <A HREF="mbyte.html#Japanese">Japanese</A>
			text.  This sets $LC_MESSAGES.
			With the &quot;ctype&quot; argument the language used for
			character encoding is set.  This affects the libraries
			that Vim was linked with.  It's unusual to set this to
			a different value from <A HREF="options.html#'encoding'">'encoding'</A> or &quot;<A HREF="change.html#C">C</A>&quot;.  This sets
			$LC_CTYPE.
			With the &quot;time&quot; argument the language used for time
			and date <A HREF="message.html#messages">messages</A> is set.  This affects <A HREF="eval.html#strftime()">strftime()</A>.
			This sets $LC_TIME.
			Without an argument both are set, and additionally
			$LANG is set.
			When compiled with the |<A HREF="various.html#+float">+float</A>| feature the LC_NUMERIC
			value will always be set to &quot;<A HREF="change.html#C">C</A>&quot;, so that floating
			point numbers use '<A HREF="repeat.html#.">.</A>' <A HREF="motion.html#as">as</A> the decimal point.
			This will make a difference for items that depend on
			the language (some <A HREF="message.html#messages">messages</A>, time and date format).
			Not fully supported on all systems
			If this fails there will be an error message.  If <A HREF="motion.html#it">it</A>
			succeeds there is no message.  Example:
<B>				:language</B>
<B>				Current language: C</B>
<B>				:language de_DE.ISO_8859-1</B>
<B>				:language mes</B>
<B>				Current messages language: de_DE.ISO_8859-1</B>
<B>				:lang mes en</B>
 


MS-WINDOWS MESSAGE TRANSLATIONS				*<A NAME="win32-gettext"></A><B>win32-gettext</B>*

If you used the self-installing .exe file, message translations should work
already.  Otherwise get the libintl.dll file if you don't have <A HREF="motion.html#it">it</A> yet:

	<A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gettext">http://sourceforge.net/projects/gettext</A>
Or:
	https://mlocati.github.io/gettext-iconv-windows/

This also contains tools xgettext, msgformat and others.

libintl.dll should be placed in same directory with (g)vim.exe, or some
place where PATH environment value describe.  Vim also finds libintl-8.dll.
Message files (vim.mo) have to be placed in &quot;$VIMRUNTIME/lang/xx/LC_MESSAGES&quot;,
where &quot;xx&quot; is the abbreviation of the language (mostly two letters).

If you write your own translations you need to generate the .po file and
convert <A HREF="motion.html#it">it</A> to a .mo file.  You need to get the source <A HREF="intro.html#distribution">distribution</A> and read
the file &quot;src/po/README.txt&quot;.

To overrule the automatic choice of the language, set the $LANG variable to
the language of your choice.  use &quot;en&quot; to disable translations.

<B>  :let $LANG = 'ja'</B>

(text for Windows by Muraoka Taro)

==============================================================================

2. Menus						*<A NAME="multilang-menus"></A><B>multilang-menus</B>*

See |<A HREF="usr_45.html#45.2">45.2</A>| for the basics, esp. using <A HREF="options.html#'langmenu'">'langmenu'</A>.

Note that if changes have been made to the <A HREF="gui.html#menus">menus</A> after the translation was
done, some of the <A HREF="gui.html#menus">menus</A> may be shown in English.  Please try contacting the
maintainer of the translation and ask him to update <A HREF="motion.html#it">it</A>.  You can find the
name and e-mail address of the translator in
&quot;$VIMRUNTIME/lang/menu_&lt;lang&gt;.vim&quot;.

To set the font (or <A HREF="mbyte.html#fontset">fontset</A>) to use for the <A HREF="gui.html#menus">menus</A>, use the |<A HREF="syntax.html#:highlight">:highlight</A>|
command.  Example:

<B>	:highlight Menu font=k12,r12</B>


ALIAS LOCALE NAMES

Unfortunately, the <A HREF="mbyte.html#locale">locale</A> names are different on various systems, even though
they are for the same language and encoding.  If you <A HREF="diff.html#do">do</A> not get the menu
translations you expected, check the output of this command:

<B>	echo v:lang</B>

Now check the &quot;$VIMRUNTIME/lang&quot; directory for menu translation files that use
a similar language.  A difference in a &quot;<A HREF="motion.html#-">-</A>&quot; being a &quot;<A HREF="motion.html#_">_</A>&quot; already causes a file
not to be found!  Another common difference to watch out for is &quot;iso8859-1&quot;
versus &quot;iso_8859-1&quot;.  Fortunately Vim makes all names <A HREF="change.html#lowercase">lowercase</A>, thus you
don't have to worry about <A HREF="change.html#case">case</A> differences.  Spaces are changed to
underscores, to avoid having to <A HREF="intro.html#escape">escape</A> them.

If you find a menu translation file for your language with a different name,
create a file in your own runtime directory to load that one.  The name of
that file could be:

<B>	~/.vim/lang/menu_&lt;v:lang&gt;.vim</B>

Check the <A HREF="options.html#'runtimepath'">'runtimepath'</A> option for directories which are searched.  In that
file put a command to load the menu file with the other name:

<B>	runtime lang/menu_&lt;other_lang&gt;.vim</B>


TRANSLATING MENUS

If you want to <A HREF="diff.html#do">do</A> your own translations, you can use the |<A HREF="#:menutrans">:menutrans</A>| command,
explained below.  It is recommended to put the translations for one language
in a Vim <A HREF="usr_41.html#script">script</A>.  For a language that has no translation yet, please consider
becoming the maintainer and make your translations available to all Vim users.
Send an e-mail to the Vim maintainer <A HREF="mailto:maintainer@vim.org">&lt;maintainer@vim.org&gt;</A>. 


					*<A NAME=":menut"></A><B>:menut</B>* *<A NAME=":menutrans"></A><B>:menutrans</B>* *<A NAME=":menutranslate"></A><B>:menutranslate</B>*
:menut[ranslate] clear
			Clear all menu translations.

:menut[ranslate] {english} {mylang}
			Translate menu name {english} to {mylang}.  All
			special characters like &quot;<A HREF="change.html#&amp;">&amp;</A>&quot; and &quot;<A HREF="motion.html#&lt;Tab&gt;">&lt;Tab&gt;</A>&quot; need to be
			included.  Spaces and dots need to be escaped with a
			<A HREF="intro.html#backslash">backslash</A>, just like in other |<A HREF="gui.html#:menu">:menu</A>| commands.
			Case in {english} is ignored.

See the $VIMRUNTIME/lang directory for examples.

To try out your translations you first have to remove all <A HREF="gui.html#menus">menus</A>.  This is how
you can <A HREF="diff.html#do">do</A> <A HREF="motion.html#it">it</A> without restarting Vim:
<B>	:source $VIMRUNTIME/delmenu.vim</B>
<B>	:source &lt;your-new-menu-file&gt;</B>
<B>	:source $VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim</B>

Each part of a menu path is translated separately.  The result is that when
&quot;Help&quot; is translated to &quot;Hilfe&quot; and &quot;Overview&quot; to &quot;Überblick&quot; then
&quot;Help.Overview&quot; will be translated to &quot;Hilfe.Überblick&quot;.

==============================================================================

3. Scripts						*<A NAME="multilang-scripts"></A><B>multilang-scripts</B>*

In Vim scripts you can use the |<A HREF="eval.html#v:lang">v:lang</A>| variable to get the current language
(locale).  The default value is &quot;<A HREF="change.html#C">C</A>&quot; or comes from the $LANG environment
variable.

The following example shows how this variable is used in a simple way, to make
a message adapt to language preferences of the user,

<B>	:if v:lang =~ "de_DE"</B>
<B>	:  echo "Guten Morgen"</B>
<B>	:else</B>
<B>	:  echo "Good morning"</B>
<B>	:endif</B>
 

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