Bug#467453: vim-gnome is not honouring locale configuration

[Hervé Cauwelier]

Package: vim-gnome
Version: 1:7.1-245+1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

Hello,

My locale is "fr_FR.UTF-8" except for LC_MESSAGES which I set to "C" to
read the original error messages (and report more accurate bugs).

Now, vim-gnome displays in English, while the desktop itself (Gnome) and
other GTK+ application are still in French.

My locale configuration:
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

So LC_ALL would not be enough to determine the preferences of a user. I
thought it was a shortcut for setting LC_*.

When I call «LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8" gvim», the menus, etc. are back in
French.

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages vim-gnome depends on:
ii  libacl1                   2.2.45-1       Access control list shared library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.21.90-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.7-6          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.14.6-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.20.1.1-1     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.20.1.1-1     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgpmg1                  1.19.6-25      General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.12.5-2       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080203-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.18.4-1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libperl5.8                5.8.8-12       Shared Perl library
ii  libruby1.8                1.8.6.111-4    Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  libsm6                    2:1.0.3-1+b1   X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.5-3      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  python2.4                 2.4.4-7        An interactive high-level object-o
ii  tcl8.4                    8.4.18-2       Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii  vim-common                1:7.1-245+1    Vi IMproved - Common files
ii  vim-gui-common            1:7.1-245+1    Vi IMproved - Common GUI files
ii  vim-runtime               1:7.1-245+1    Vi IMproved - Runtime files

vim-gnome recommends no packages.

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