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Re: [Bug report] Git incorrectly selects language in macos

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Sep 16, 2018, 07:15 UTC
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:20 PM Niko Dzhus <primenico@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Looks like the issue appeared after updating git from brew.
>
> A quick search revealed that brew changed how it builds git recently.
> I think, it just didn't include i18n by default before, so I never
> noticed this.
>
> Anybody here familiar enough with the build process and dependencies
> of git to pinpoint what exactly is causing this and how to fix it?...

This problem is not specific to Git. Earlier in the thread, Ævar asked[1] if the problem also occurs with other command-line programs, and indeed it does. For instance, I tried with 'wget' installed via brew, and it exhibits the same odd behavior. Ævar suggested that there might be some magic special-casing English, which makes me wonder if brew builds such magic into gettext(?) or if the magic is part of MacOS itself.

[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/87a7ojlp31.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
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Message 5 of 11 in “[Bug report] Git incorrectly selects language in macos”
  1. Niko DzhusSep 14, 2018
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 14, 2018
  3. Niko DzhusSep 15, 2018
  4. Niko DzhusSep 15, 2018
  5. Eric SunshineSep 16, 2018
  6. Nate WeaverJan 15, 2019
  7. Nate WeaverJan 15, 2019
  8. Nate WeaverJan 15, 2019
  9. Eric SunshineJan 15, 2019
  10. Jonathan NiederJan 16, 2019
  11. Jonathan NiederJan 16, 2019

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