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

[Niko Dzhus <primenico@gmail.com>]

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@gmail.com> 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?