patch 8.0.0175: setting language on MS-Windows does not always work commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/972c3b8f1b50e2f887a397c324af99eb354aad0b Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Jan 12 21:44:49 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.0175: setting language on MS-Windows does not always work Problem: Setting language in gvim on MS-Windows does not work when libintl.dll is dynamically linked with msvcrt.dll. Solution: Use putenv() from libintl as well. (Ken Takata, closes #1082)

README_src.txt for version 8.0 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.0-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!