Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> 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
