Bug 64589

Try this

LANG=it_IT xterm -e vim (Should give you Italian messages)

or

LANG=ja_JP gvim (Japanese messages *and* menus)

or this

LANG=pl_PL.utf8 LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 xterm -fn
"-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1" -e vim "+set
keymap=greek_utf-8"

(Polish messages, with greek keymapping so Polish people can type greek
 characters in an UTF-8 file)

etc.

None of these work. In none of the rh versions: 7.3, 7.2, 7.1 ..
I found out when I needed to change the keymap to enter text in another language.
In fact it turned out that redhat simply `forgot' to install all kind of files.
Maybe because some lines in the spec file got so convoluted that nobody
dared touch it ?

What really amazes me is that this apparently went undetected for so long ..

1) none of rh users uses the best editor in the world ?
2) none of rh users uses anything but LANG=en_US ?
3) none of rh users bothers to file a bug report ?
4) nobody at rh watches the competition (PLD, mandrake have working versions) ?
4) ??

Anyway the only point I can influence myself is 3).
I've put up a src.rpm on
http://lanceerplaats.nl/downloads/SRPMS/vim-6.1-3.src.rpm
I'll only leave it there untill after a few downloads.
OBdisclaimer: It works for me, I do not work for redhat.

Note you need to *at least* change  --with-compiledby ..
You can easily see by comparing the spec files that
it really is not that different ..


Regards,
Harold.