The French-language help includes a tags-fr. It works -- as long as I
don't want to install another helpfile in the same directory. Then
:helptags $VIM/vimfiles/doc gives an error on hebrew.frx which has a
different 'fileencoding' than the rest. The problem is that most of the
*.frx files are in 8-bit Latin1 (with âàçéêèëîïôûù but not œ) while
hebrew.frx is in UTF-8+BOM (with Hebrew letters in UTF-8), so even
removing the BOM doesn't clear the error: it's still Latin1 vs. UTF-8
(even though all help *tags*, |references|, 'options' etc. within all
files are in 7-bit ASCII). Trying to run :helptags on that directory
(e.g. as part of :UseVimball) then truncates tags-fr to zero length.
Bram: I believe the E670 message (at ex_cmds.c line 6398) and the
corresponding check are more a hinder than a help.
Another possibility would be to convert the whole French help to UTF-8,
but then it would no more be readable by "tiny" "small" or "normal"
-multi_byte versions of Vim. Anyway the README-fr says this help is for
Vim 6.2.017, and yet it is the only language which enjoys "full"
translation of the Vim help. Maybe we should declare that help
translation is a fiasco for lack of adequate manpower?
Best regards,
Tony.
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