How to set the language of ui in gvim

[李哲]

According to this link I already add the language setting code into my vimrc file.
http://superuser.com/a/921446/609799

"Set The Language Of The Vim"
set langmenu=en_US
let $LANG = 'en_US'
source $VIMRUNTIME/delmenu.vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim

But the language on the ui is still CN how to change that ?

[Lifu Tang]

What you need is a single line of code in your vimrc:

language en_US

By the way, the "source delmenu.vim" and "source menu.vim" trick in vimrc was a work-around to a Vim bug which I believe to be fixed around 10 years ago. I'm quite astonished that people still keep doing that even till today.

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[Christian Brabandt]

Hi 李哲!

I am afraid, this might be currently broken:
https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1082


Best,
Christian
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[skywi...@163.com]

Hi 李哲!

1. Delete your vim/lang folder

or 

2. Install gvim with "native language ????" disabled.

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[Tony Mechelynck]

It is not always possible or desirable to disable +multi_lang.

Which languages are recognized (and acceptable as argument to the
:language command and its subcommands) depends on your OS and on hos
it is installed.
On Windows, ":language messages en" usually works, ":language
messages C" never does, ":language messages en_US" usually doesn't, "
:language messages English_United States" may or may not work, and I
don't know whether the space in the middle of United States needs a
backslash escape. Without the quotes in each case.
On Unix and similar, the command "locale -a |less", given without
the quotes at a shell prompt, will tell you all recognized language
names

In my experience, the ":language messages LANGUAGENAME" command is one
of the few that should be given before sourcing the vimrc_example.vim
-- the following is how my vimrc begins:

" force English menus and messages regardless of which locale is set in the OS
if has("unix") " including Mac OS X (but not the obsolete Mac OS 9) IIUC
language messages C
else " Windows
language messages en
endif
runtime vimrc_example.vim

etc.

[Zhe Lee]

Hi, tnx a lot for your reply I reinstall the Vim and add the `language en_US` into the vimrc file. But I get the error.
I Google it and change the line to `language messages en_US`, there is no error message pop out. But the UI language still be CN.


[Zhe Lee]

tnx a lot for your reply . I have already tried the command in my vimrc file. But it doesn't work. My os is windows and the native lan is CN.

[Zhe Lee]

I use Vim8 and my os is windows

According to the post here.
https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1082 which is provided by Christian Brabandt.

Seems the delete the lang folder is the only way that work for me.

Again really appreciate everyone who give me a suggestion every one, I have tried.
TNX : )

[Dominique Pellé]

As was already said, valid languages depend
on the platform.

You can try completion to find valid languages:

:language CTRL-D

It works at least on Linux, but I'm not sure whether it's
implemented on Windows.

Regards
Dominique

[Tony Mechelynck]

On Windows, AFAIK ":language messages en" (without _US) works. Maybe
also ":language messages English_United States" or ":language messages
English_United\ States", I don't know which. OTOH, the experiments
mentioned above seem to indicate that ":language messages en_US" is
not recognized on Windows.

Best regards,
Tony.