Bug#467453: vim-gnome is not honouring locale configuration

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Sun Mar 2 17:57:18 UTC 2008


On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 05:09:24PM +0100, Hervé Cauwelier wrote:
> My locale is "fr_FR.UTF-8" except for LC_MESSAGES which I set to "C" to
> read the original error messages (and report more accurate bugs).
> 
> Now, vim-gnome displays in English, while the desktop itself (Gnome) and
> other GTK+ application are still in French.

This is Vim's intended behavior.  Its order of precedence is LC_ALL ->
LC_MESSAGES -> LANG.  You can change the setting on-the-fly in Vim with
the :lang command.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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