From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 07:08:06 GMT
Subject: Re: LANGUAGE instead of LANG respected in git?
Message-ID: <xmqq7dfdf3ft.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <8ed06f91-2efc-1816-aa82-beac8e174549@gmail.com>

Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

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