diff --git a/runtime/lang/menu_fr.utf-8.vim b/runtime/lang/menu_fr.utf-8.vim
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+" Menu Translations:	French for UTF-8 encoding
+
+source <sfile>:p:h/menu_fr_fr.latin1.vim