Re: [Bug report] Git incorrectly selects language in macos

[Nate Weaver <wevah@derailer.org>]

> On Sep 16, 2018, at 02:15:33, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:20 PM Niko Dzhus <primenico@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Looks like the issue appeared after updating git from brew.
>> 
>> A quick search revealed that brew changed how it builds git recently.
>> I think, it just didn't include i18n by default before, so I never
>> noticed this.
>> 
>> Anybody here familiar enough with the build process and dependencies
>> of git to pinpoint what exactly is causing this and how to fix it?...
> 
> This problem is not specific to Git. Earlier in the thread, Ævar
> asked[1] if the problem also occurs with other command-line programs,
> and indeed it does. For instance, I tried with 'wget' installed via
> brew, and it exhibits the same odd behavior. Ævar suggested that there
> might be some magic special-casing English, which makes me wonder if
> brew builds such magic into gettext(?) or if the magic is part of
> MacOS itself.
> 
> [1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/87a7ojlp31.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/

I discovered that moving/renaming /usr/local/share/locale made this
issue go away for me. While 'de' and 'fr' have a git.mo file in their
LC_MESSAGES subdirectory, there is no 'en' directory.

If I copy the 'fr' version to a newly-created 'en' directory, then all my
git output is in French; my language order in System Preferences is
English (US) -> German -> Japanese.

Not sure if this is gettext's or macOS's issue.

--Nate Weaver (Wevah)