# Git 2.19 ignores default system language in Mac (2.18 or earlier did not)

2 messages from 2018-09-19 to 2018-09-19. Participants: Vasily Korytov, Elijah Newren.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/49381

## Vasily Korytov, 2018-09-19 14:18

Subject: Git 2.19 ignores default system language in Mac (2.18 or earlier did not)
Message-ID: <1B4739BD-812E-43E7-B7E6-D6B9CD0D0B3A@icloud.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1B4739BD-812E-43E7-B7E6-D6B9CD0D0B3A%40icloud.com

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Hi,

$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=
$ uname -mrs
Darwin 16.7.0 x86_64
$ git --version
git version 2.19.0

In Mac’s system preferences I have three languages: English (default), Russian, Ukrainian.

After update to Git 2.19 Git’s output suddenly appeared in Russian.
I can use `export LANG=en_US.UTF-8` to switch it to English back, but it’s very weird.

Did not find any related things in changelog, so assuming this is a bug.
```

## Elijah Newren, 2018-09-19 15:39

Subject: Re: Git 2.19 ignores default system language in Mac (2.18 or earlier did not)
Message-ID: <CABPp-BHQ8Xa24rpxW8CTqkvkh-hFFtb-WLuGZjvZoHP6Cr2WDg@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CABPp-BHQ8Xa24rpxW8CTqkvkh-hFFtb-WLuGZjvZoHP6Cr2WDg%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <1B4739BD-812E-43E7-B7E6-D6B9CD0D0B3A@icloud.com>

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 7:24 AM Vasily Korytov
<vasily.korytov@icloud.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> $ locale
> LANG=
> LC_COLLATE="C"
> LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="C"
> LC_MONETARY="C"
> LC_NUMERIC="C"
> LC_TIME="C"
> LC_ALL=
> $ uname -mrs
> Darwin 16.7.0 x86_64
> $ git --version
> git version 2.19.0
>
> In Mac’s system preferences I have three languages: English (default), Russian, Ukrainian.
>
> After update to Git 2.19 Git’s output suddenly appeared in Russian.
> I can use `export LANG=en_US.UTF-8` to switch it to English back, but it’s very weird.
>
> Did not find any related things in changelog, so assuming this is a bug.

According to the thread at
https://public-inbox.org/git/CAPig+cQWW9kibWYKu5oRDgo_Pt4wVmzkqzbTG=YGvwqRCXcNXw@mail.gmail.com/,
this appears to be a bug in how brew changed its builds of git, and
also affects packages besides git.

```