> On Sep 16, 2018, at 02:15:33, Eric Sunshine <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:20 PM Niko Dzhus <[email protected]> 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/[email protected]/
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)
