On 9/8/2011 6:46 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > There is nothing to "fix". Users who don't want internationalization > system-wide > can set their locale in the "Regional Settings" control panel to English. > Users who want to have a German Windows but a non-internationalized Cygwin can > set LANG=C or LC_ALL=C - exactly like POSIX specifies.
But setting LANG=C.UTF-8 (and not setting any of the LC_* vars at all) should have the same behavior as setting LC_ALL=C.UTF-8. It does not -- and THAT's the bug. In the former case, $LANG is ignored and the system settings are used (in the OP's case, messages are in German). In the latter case, LC_ALL is respected, and (in the OP's case) messages are in English. Here's how to reproduce: cygwin-1.7.9-1 coreutils-8.10-1 libintl8-0.18.1.1-1 libiconv2-1.14-1 xterm-261-1 bash-4.1.10-4 In MSWindow's language settings, set: * tab 1: "Regional options": combobox "Standards and formats": "German (Germany)" combobox "Location" : "Germany" * tab 2: "Languages": combobox "Language used in menues and dialogs": English * tab 3: "Advanced" combobox "Language for non-Unicode programs": "German (Germany)" Reboot. Then, launch a bash shell (in cmd.exe, not mintty). Launch an Xserver -- I actually used the XMing one http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ not the cygwin one -- just to eliminate the possibility that cygwin's Xserver was exercising cygwin's [X]setlocale() function. Then, in the bash shell: $ LANG=C.UTF-8 DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 xterm & $ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 xterm & In the first xterm: $ mkdir -v x1 mkdir: Verzeichnis „x1“ angelegt In the seccond xterm: $ mkdir -v x2 mkdir: created directory `x2' Now, it may be possible to simplify this test case, but that's what the OP reported, so that's what I reproduced... -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple