Tried what you suggested - it seems, it only ignores English. In you example, with Swedish as primary and German as secondary, git uses Swedish. With more that one secondary language, the one with a higher priority is being used, as expected. I also tried using non-generic English (English-UK and English-US), but they also get ignored. Terminal commands return the following: ➜ ~ locale LANG= LC_COLLATE="C" LC_CTYPE="UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_ALL= ➜ ~ env | grep -e LC -e LANG LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 ➜ ~ It doesn't change with primary/secondary language switching. I don't have any manual overrides in my .zshrc and .zprofile for those neither. On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 12:57 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 14 2018, Niko Dzhus wrote: > > > It doesn't use English when other language is available as a secondary language. > > > > Reproducing: > > > > 1. Open "Language & Region" in macos settings > > 2. In "Preferred languages" box, set English as a primary language. > > 3. Add another language, that git is translated to, as a secondary > > language, for example, French or German. > > 4. Run any git command - git will use the secondary language, instead > > of English. > > > > When the secondary language is removed, then git starts using English again. > > > > I have git 2.19.0, installed from brew, and my OS is macOS 10.13.6 . > > What's the output of these two commands for you: > > 1. locale > 2. env | grep -e LC -e LANG > > We don't do any such magic ourselves, so whatever this is is down to how > i18n in general works on your system, do you have any other translated > command-line program that works differently? > > I suspect there's some DWYM logic here that always treats English as a > secondary language. > > Do you also e.g. get the same results if you select say Swedish as a > primary language and German as a secondary? I.e. a Git in German, as > opposed to Swedish?