Re: Re: How to set the language of ui in gvim

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.

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