Wrong messages after setting LANG et al.

[Arash Esbati]

Hi all,

first of all, many thanks for iTerm2, great tool! I'm using iTerm2
Build 3.6.8 installed via homebrew and it seems I'm not able to change
the $LANG for messages emitted by bash.

I have German as primary language for my macOS, but have these lines in
my .bashrc:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8

Running locale in bash returns:

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

I think I also told iTerm2 not to fiddle with the language with this
setting:

[George Nachman]

If you start bash within bash, does that one give you English messages? Perhaps the issue is that the environment is set to German at the time bash starts and it doesn’t update its own locale when you assign to LANG. If that is the case, then try setting the local to “Custom locale” and pick US English:

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Still, when I enter a wrong command name in bash, say 'lo RET', I get:

 $ lo
 -bash: lo: Kommando nicht gefunden

Any hint what I'm doing wrong?

Best, Arash

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[Arash Esbati]

George Nachman <gnac...@llamas.org> writes:

> If you start bash within bash, does that one give you English
> messages?

Yes, it does.

> Perhaps the issue is that the environment is set to German at the time
> bash starts and it doesn’t update its own locale when you assign to
> LANG. If that is the case, then try setting the local to “Custom
> locale” and pick US English:

Yes, that does the trick. Again, many thanks for maintaining iTerm2.

Best, Arash