1*russian.txt*   For Vim version 7.3.  Last change: 2006 Apr 24
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4		  VIM REFERENCE MANUAL    by Vassily Ragosin
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7Russian language localization and support in Vim	   *russian* *Russian*
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91. Introduction				  |russian-intro|
102. Russian keymaps			  |russian-keymap|
113. Localization				  |russian-l18n|
124. Known issues				  |russian-issues|
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151. Introduction							*russian-intro*
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17Russian language is supported perfectly well in Vim.  You can type and view
18Russian text just as any other, without the need to tweak the settings.
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212. Russian keymaps					       *russian-keymap*
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23To switch between languages you can use your system native keyboard switcher,
24or use one of the Russian keymaps, included in the Vim distribution.  For
25example,
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27    :set keymap=russian-jcukenwin
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29In the latter case, you can switch between languages even if you do not have
30system Russian keyboard or independently from a system-wide keyboard settings.
31See 'keymap'.  You can also map a key to switch between keyboards, if you
32choose the latter option.  See |:map|.
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34For your convenience, to avoid switching between keyboards, when you need to
35enter Normal mode command, you can also set 'langmap' option:
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37    :set langmap=ФИСВУАПРШОЛДЬТЩЗЙКЫЕГМЦЧНЯ;ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ,
38    фисвуапршолдьтщзйкыегмцчня;abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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40This is in utf-8, you cannot read this if your 'encoding' is not utf-8.
41You have to type this command in one line, it is wrapped for the sake of
42readability.
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453. Localization							 *russian-l18n*
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47If you wish to use messages, help files, menus and other items translated to
48Russian, you will need to install the RuVim Language Pack, available in
49different codepages from
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51    http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ruvim/
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53Make sure that your Vim is at least 6.2.506 and use ruvim 0.5 or later for
54automatic installs.  Vim also needs to be compiled with |+gettext| feature for
55user interface items translations to work.
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57After downloading an archive from RuVim project, unpack it into your
58$VIMRUNTIME directory.  We recommend using UTF-8 archive, if your version of
59Vim is compiled with |+multi_byte| feature enabled.
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61In order to use the Russian documentation, make sure you have set the
62'helplang' option to "ru".
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654. Known issues						       *russian-issues*
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67-- If you are using Russian message translations in Win32 console, then
68   you may see the output produced by "vim --help", "vim --version" commands
69   and Win32 console window title appearing in a wrong codepage.  This problem
70   is related to a bug in GNU gettext library and may be fixed in the future
71   releases of gettext.
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