[vim/vim] MS-Windows: messages are not in the display language (PR #20860)
h_east
Problem: On MS-Windows the messages use the language of the regional
format, not the language that Windows is displayed in.
Solution: Use the display language for the messages, with the other
preferred languages as fall back. Make ":language messages"
overrule it.
fixes: #20855
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https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/20860
Commit Summary
- dc92327 MS-Windows: messages are not in the display language
File Changes
(3 files)
- M runtime/doc/mlang.txt (4)
- M src/locale.c (15)
- M src/option.c (103)
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h_east
h-east left a comment (vim/vim#20860)Not a duplicate of #20204 (that one is about 'statusline' %P). #20201 is
the closest related report.
The report is correct, and the cause is in Vim itself: set_init_lang_env() in
src/option.c sets $LANG from GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME), which is the regional format, not the display
language. gettext then picks the messages from that.
I have a patch that takes the display language instead, using
GetUserPreferredUILanguages(), and only when none of $LANG, $LANGUAGE,
$LC_ALL and $LC_MESSAGES is set, so setting those keeps working as before.
$LANGUAGE gets the fall-back list, $LANG the language itself. The default
for 'helplang' follows the same value now.
The list stops after English on purpose: Vim ships no en catalog, so gettext
would otherwise fall through to a later preferred language, and a preference
list of "en-US, de-DE" would end up with German messages.
Verified on Windows 11 with display language Japanese and regional format
German (Germany): messages are now Japanese instead of German, the other locale
categories still follow the regional format, and set LANG=de still gives
German messages.
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Christian Brabandt
chrisbra left a comment (vim/vim#20860)thanks
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