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Re: LANGUAGE instead of LANG respected in git?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 19, 2021, 07:08 UTC
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Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:
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> 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?
That's not Git but your system, most likely GNU gettext, is doing.
Learn to use your search engine before asking questions here.
  https://bfy.tw/Rg6H
which will eventually take you to https://superuser.com/a/392466
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  1. Bagas SanjayaSep 19, 2021
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2021
  3. Sergey OrganovSep 19, 2021

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