How to display UTF characters in message line of gVim?

Question

I am using a German version of gVim 7.4 on Windows 7. The message line does not display UTF-8 characters correctly. For example, it shows

Wort zu ~/vimfiles/spell/de.utf-8.add hinzugef<fc>gt

instead of

Wort zu ~/vimfiles/spell/de.utf-8.add hinzugefügt

after having added a word to the spelling directory. How can I make it display the umlaut?

Answer 1

Problem related to the charset converter for gvim on windows, From help :usr_45, it says:

Using different languages only works when Vim was compiled to handle it. To find out if it works, use the ":version" command and check the output for "+gettext" and "+multi_lang". If they are there, you are OK. If you see "-gettext" or "-multi_lang" you will have to find another Vim.

If there is "-gettext" or "-multi_lange", or "-iconv", you need to download proper library your own for windows, see this post https://superuser.com/questions/207264/gvim-utf-8-in-windows for more information and downlinks for the library on windows