Setting the language

[Axel Bender]

How would I set the language to en_US.UTF-8 via the "language" command in Windows gvim?

[Christian Brabandt]

On So, 19 Mai 2019, Axel Bender wrote:

> How would I set the language to en_US.UTF-8 via the "language" command
> in Windows gvim?

I am not sure why you want UTF-8 in Windows, it seems the more widely
used codepage in use is 1252 (for western countries).
UTF-8 Codepage in Windows is 65001, however it seems like setting that
via the language command does not work, at least not on my system here:

So try:

lang English_USA.1252
lang mes English_US.1252

Or don't explicitly care about the encoding and use
:lang English_USA
:lang mes English_USA


Best,
Christian
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[Axel Bender]

@Christian,

Thanks for your reply.

Is there any reason why anyone would not want UTF8? (just joking...)

That's exactly the problem, I can't set the language to UTF-8 for the various types (messages, ctype, time) in Windows.

language english_United States.1252 works (but is not what I want).
language english_United States.65001 (which represents UTF-8 in Windows) doesn't (as does english_United States.UTF-8 or english.United States.utf8), which all result in E197 being thrown.

I see no other way to influence the collation for sorting regions, e.g. with
'<,'>sort than setting the language...

I explicitly do not want Windows 1252.

[Ken Takata]

Hi,

If you want to use UTF-8, write the following line in your .vimrc (_vimrc):

set encoding=utf-8

:language cannot be used for setting the encoding.

Regards,
Ken Takata

[Axel Bender]

@Ken

Thanks for the reply.

set encoding=utf-8 is my default setting...

However, in Windows:
- how can I influence the values of v:lc_time, v:lang, and v:ctype?
- how can I influence the way the internal sort command sorts (in Linux - having set $LC_ALL to "de_DE.UTF-8") sorting works with /bin/sort.

Questions over questions... ;-)

[Ken Takata]

Hi,

The internal sort doesn't affected by the locale.

Regards,
Ken Takata