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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LANGUAGE instead of LANG respected in git?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:08:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7dfdf3ft.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ed06f91-2efc-1816-aa82-beac8e174549@gmail.com> (Bagas Sanjaya's message of "Sun, 19 Sep 2021 12:04:04 +0700")

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.

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

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-19  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-19  5:04 LANGUAGE instead of LANG respected in git? Bagas Sanjaya
2021-09-19  7:08 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-09-19  8:53 ` Sergey Organov

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