Re: LANGUAGE instead of LANG respected in git?

From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2021, 08:53 UTC
Message-ID: <87pmt5c5g3.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <8ed06f91-2efc-1816-aa82-beac8e174549@gmail.com>

Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> Supposed that I would like to display `git help` in French
> (`fr_FR.UTF-8`) language. I ran `LANGUAGE="fr_FR.UTF-8" git help`, and
> indeed the help is displayed in French. But when I instead ran
> `LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" git help`, the help is in English instead of
> French.
>
> It seems like Git use LANGUAGE to display localized messages instead
> of LANG (like many other tools do). Why?

You probably have LC_ALL set in your environment. Neither LANG nor LC_MESSAGES overrides that, while LANGUAGE does.

quote from here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Locale-Environment-Variables.html#Locale-Environment-Variables

"Some systems, unfortunately, set LC_ALL in /etc/profile or in similar initialization files. As a user, you therefore have to unset this variable if you want to set LANG and optionally some of the other LC_xxx variables."

HTH, -- Sergey Organov