[Ruvim-devel] Re: ruvim 0.5 release

[Bram M. <Br...@mo...>]

Vassily Ragosin wrote:

> suggest Bram if he wants to include it on the main Vim tree, to use
> koi8-r version of it there, instead of utf-8 (more platform reach)

For the help files only latin1 and utf-8 are supported.  Conversion of
Russian text from utf-8 to your current 'encoding' should not be a
problem.  On MS-Windows it should now always work, on Unix you need the
iconv library, which is a good thing anyway if your 'encoding' is not
latin1.

> ps: Bram, I'm cc:ing this to you so that you can correct things or
> maybe give us more information about your plans. For example, if 6.3
> is May reality, it makes sense to release ruvim 0.5 language pack
> together with or very soon after with 6.3.

I am getting much closer to a 6.3 beta test.  It appears I have already
included all the changes to support the Russian help files.  Only the
russian.txt needs to be added.  Your Russian language pack can be made a
bit later.

What bothers me most is that you report that some characters disappear
in the console, using cp866.  I still don't have enough information to
guess what the problem is.  If this only happens with messages that were
handled with gettext, the problem could be that gettext produces cp1251
messages, while Vim expects cp866.  Did you try ":lang mess ru_ru.cp866"
or ":lang mess Russian_Russia.cp866"?

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