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Diffstat (limited to 'runtime/doc/mlang.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/mlang.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/mlang.txt b/runtime/doc/mlang.txt index b57d2b592a..9d3a51302d 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/mlang.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/mlang.txt @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ use of "-" and "_". :lan[guage] mes[sages] :lan[guage] cty[pe] :lan[guage] tim[e] +:lan[guage] col[late] Print the current language (aka locale). With the "messages" argument the language used for messages is printed. Technical: LC_MESSAGES. @@ -38,15 +39,19 @@ use of "-" and "_". character encoding is printed. Technical: LC_CTYPE. With the "time" argument the language used for strftime() is printed. Technical: LC_TIME. + With the "collate" argument the language used for + collation order is printed. Technical: LC_COLLATE. Without argument all parts of the locale are printed (this is system dependent). The current language can also be obtained with the - |v:lang|, |v:ctype| and |v:lc_time| variables. + |v:lang|, |v:ctype|, |v:collate| and |v:lc_time| + variables. :lan[guage] {name} :lan[guage] mes[sages] {name} :lan[guage] cty[pe] {name} :lan[guage] tim[e] {name} +:lan[guage] col[late] {name} Set the current language (aka locale) to {name}. The locale {name} must be a valid locale on your system. Some systems accept aliases like "en" or @@ -66,7 +71,10 @@ use of "-" and "_". With the "time" argument the language used for time and date messages is set. This affects strftime(). This sets $LC_TIME. - Without an argument both are set, and additionally + With the "collate" argument the language used for the + collation order is set. This affects sorting of + characters. This sets $LC_COLLATE. + Without an argument all are set, and additionally $LANG is set. The LC_NUMERIC value will always be set to "C" so that floating point numbers use '.' as the decimal |