# LANGUAGE instead of LANG respected in git? 3 messages from 2021-09-19 to 2021-09-19. Participants: Bagas Sanjaya, Junio C Hamano, Sergey Organov. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/56537 ## Bagas Sanjaya, 2021-09-19 05:04 Subject: LANGUAGE instead of LANG respected in git? Message-ID: <8ed06f91-2efc-1816-aa82-beac8e174549@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/8ed06f91-2efc-1816-aa82-beac8e174549%40gmail.com ``` 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? -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2021-09-19 07:08 Subject: Re: LANGUAGE instead of LANG respected in git? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqq7dfdf3ft.fsf%40gitster.g In-Reply-To: <8ed06f91-2efc-1816-aa82-beac8e174549@gmail.com> ``` Bagas Sanjaya 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. 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 ``` ## Sergey Organov, 2021-09-19 08:53 Subject: Re: LANGUAGE instead of LANG respected in git? Message-ID: <87pmt5c5g3.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87pmt5c5g3.fsf%40osv.gnss.ru In-Reply-To: <8ed06f91-2efc-1816-aa82-beac8e174549@gmail.com> ``` Bagas Sanjaya writes: > 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 ```