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Translated menus
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The contents of each menu file is a sequence of lines with &quot;menutrans&quot;
commands.  Read one of the existing files to get an idea of how this works.

More information in the on-line help:

	:help multilang-menus
	:help :menutrans
	:help 'langmenu'
	:help :language

The &quot;$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim&quot; file will search for a menu translation file.  This
depends on the value of the &quot;v:lang&quot; variable.

	&quot;menu_&quot; . v:lang . &quot;.vim&quot;

When the 'menutrans' option is set, its value will be used instead of v:lang.

The file name is always lower case.  It is the full name as the &quot;:language&quot;
command shows (the LC_MESSAGES value).

For example, to use the Big5 (Taiwan) menus on MS-Windows the $LANG will be

	Chinese(Taiwan)_Taiwan.950

and use the menu translation file:

	$VIMRUNTIME/lang/menu_chinese(taiwan)_taiwan.950.vim

On Unix you should set $LANG, depending on your shell:

	csh/tcsh:	setenv LANG &quot;zh_TW.Big5&quot;
	sh/bash/ksh:	export LANG=&quot;zh_TW.Big5&quot;

and the menu translation file is:

	$VIMRUNTIME/lang/menu_zh_tw.big5.vim

The menu translation file should set the &quot;did_menu_trans&quot; variable so that Vim
will not load another file.


AUTOMATIC CONVERSION

When Vim was compiled with multi-byte support, conversion between latin1 and
UTF-8 will always be possible.  Other conversions depend on the iconv
library, which is not always available.
For UTF-8 menu files which only use latin1 characters, you can rely on Vim
doing the conversion.  Let the UTF-8 menu file source the latin1 menu file,
and put &quot;scriptencoding latin1&quot; in that one.
Other conversions may not always be available (e.g., between iso-8859-# and
MS-Windows codepages), thus the converted menu file must be available.


Translated messages
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This requires doing &quot;make install&quot; in the &quot;src&quot; directory.  It will compile
the portable files &quot;src/po/*.po&quot; into binary &quot;.mo&quot; files and place them in the
right directory.
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