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I ran into a strange issue with my ArchLinux setup. Vim uses correct encoding for reading/displaying files but these status messages (which displays the current mode or reports back when the buffer is written to a file) uses a wrong encoding for the (Hungarian) message.

I tried to set termencoding=utf-8 but it does not solve the issue. The encoding is correctly set to utf-8. The MATE Terminal is also in UTF-8 and my locale is also in UTF-8:

LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="hu_HU.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="hu_HU.UTF-8" LC_TIME="hu_HU.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="hu_HU.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="hu_HU.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="hu_HU.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="hu_HU.UTF-8" LC_NAME="hu_HU.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="hu_HU.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="hu_HU.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="hu_HU.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="hu_HU.UTF-8"

I currently ran out of ideas, please help me out.

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  • As a non-hungarian speaker, everything looks normal to me in that screenshot ;-). Commented Jan 16, 2024 at 15:38
  • @romainl the status line should be "-- BESZÚR --" :) Commented Jan 20, 2024 at 15:12
  • As this bug is also arrived in ubuntu, I was looking for a most recent (or previous working) vim.mo. No luck. Maybe compiling it from git would solve the issue, but I didn't want that much fuss, so just deleted the vim.mo from /usr/share/locale-langpack/hu/LC_MESSAGES. Now my gvim menu is still in hungarian (it comes from elsewhere), and no translations in the status line, which is far more better than the one with bad encoding. By the way my ubuntu is 22.04, vim version is 8.2. Commented Mar 6, 2024 at 20:52

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It would be good to know your vim version...

In my hypothesis, it came with vim 9.1.

You can file a bug on GitHub or ask directly the maintainer of hu.po file whether he can help to find out what went wrong in this case.

Another alternative is to wait until somehow it become magically solved -- but this is my way, and I don't recommend this approach for any daily user of vim!

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  • VIM - Vi IMproved 9.1 (2024 Jan 02, compiled Jan 02 2024 18:36:25) Commented Jan 22, 2024 at 14:00
  • Btw, the PO file itself is in UTF-8 so in theory it sould be good. Commented Jan 22, 2024 at 14:02
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    @GaborGarami the utf8 change appears on yesterday, see history: github.com/vim/vim/commits/master/src/po/hu.po In the package the po file is in iso-8859-1 (see github.com/vim/vim/blob/… ). I think it should be right in the next version (or manually install the utf8 po file). Commented Jan 24, 2024 at 6:06
  • Yeah I saw it I just did not had a time to update this issue. Thanks! Commented Jan 30, 2024 at 9:06
  • @folti it magically became solved :P Commented Jan 30, 2024 at 9:07

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