The usual way of communicating the desired locale, certainly for command-line 
programs, is by setting appropriate environment variables.  The lowest priority 
(overridden by any of the others where they conflict) is LANG, which applies to 
all categories of locale information not set with one of the other environment 
variables.  Then there are category-specific environment variables:
LC_COLLATE              collation sequence
LC_CTYPE                character classification
LC_MESSAGES     message text
LD_MONETARY     currency symbol and notation
LC_NUMERIC              preferred separator and decimal character
LC_TIME                 preferred date and time formats

and finally, all of the above can be overridden with LC_ALL

Thus, if I start with
sh-3.2$ locale
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

but wish to run some single command and its descendants (in place of the locale 
command below) in another locale:

sh-3.2$ env LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 locale
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:19 AM, heapifyman wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> is there a way to turn off localization for a specific port? In my case git 
> output on the command line is in German but I would like to have the original 
> English output.
> How do I do that? Delete the file 
> /opt/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
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