Re: Gvim popup and bottom line message are garbled for enc=utf8 on Windows

Thanks Tony or the Vim Yoda!

Google has given this page:
http://magicant.txt-nifty.com/main/2010/04/windows-gvim-1b.html
(a Japanese page)
which says:
D is the directory where gvim.exe resides.
1)Get iconv.dll and put it in D.
and,
2-1)Get intl.dll from GNU gettext Windows binary.
2-2)Rename it to libintl.dll and replace the original Vim libintl.dll found in D with the new one.

The above instruction has solved the problem. Garbled messages are gone!

The writer of the page says he found the info somewhere on Vim official pages plus others.

(2010年10月11日 09:32), Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 11/10/10 00:42, Hiroshi Iwatani wrote:
>> I have [set encoding=utf-8] for the _vimrc file on a Windows 7 environment, which is a requirement for my current work. Under this setting, texts on the gvim popup alert, messages displayed on the bottom line and current file name display are all garbled being unreadable. If enc is unset or set to cp932, which is a Windows derivative of Shift-JIS, those texts are normally displayed but then utf8 text from file is unreadable.
>>
>> How could I read normally those texts from the gvim system under the 'enc=utf-8' setting?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> Try (untested) adding either
>
> :language messages Japanese_Japan.932
> or
> :language messages Japanese_Japan.10646
>
> It probably also makes a difference whether you put it in your vimrc before or after setting 'encoding' to UTF-8: you will have to experiment, as I cannot test it myself (I don't have a Windows box anymore). In any case it should be before any of the following (only one of which is usually present):
>
> :filetype plugin on
> :filetype plugin indent on
> :runtime vimrc_example.vim
> :source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
>
>
> Another possibility is to have all messages and popups come out in English, by using
>
> :language messages English_United States.1252
> or maybe
> :language messages English_United\ States.1252
>
> (if one of them doesn't work, try the other).
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.

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