Re: Bash shell uses wrong language

On 2025-04-14 at 10:59 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Are bilingual but primarily-English-speaking end users expected to put > "en@quot" as their preferred language in the LANGUAGE variable, in order > to get messages in English? > > Would creating an empty /usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/bash.mo

Re: Bash shell uses wrong language

On 4/14/25 10:56 AM, Kaulkwappe wrote: Hi Chet! Can you confirm that Bash really has translations for 'en_US'? Because you say: If there is no installed locale for en_US [...] No, very few programs do. The Debian 12 system I looked at claims to have en_US installed, but nothing in /usr/share/

Re: Bash shell uses wrong language

++ On Mon, Apr 14, 2025, 16:46 Chet Ramey wrote: > On 4/13/25 11:37 AM, microsuxx wrote: > > seems to cycle between lc : parts one loose .. > > No, these are all translated strings. > > >> hobbit:~$ LANGUAGE=en_US:es_ES bash --version > >> GNU bash, versión 5.2.15(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Re: Bash shell uses wrong language

On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 10:44:06 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > According to > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html#tag_08_02 > > only gettext(3) looks at LANGUAGE, and that behavior can't be modified by > any calls to setlocale(3). gettext(3) is responsible for ov

Re: Bash shell uses wrong language

se. -- Kaulkwappe From: Chet Ramey Sent: Monday, 14. Apr 2025 – 16:44 CEST +0200 To: Kaulkwappe bug-bash@gnu.org CC: chet.ra...@case.edu Subject: Re: Bash shell uses wrong language On 4/13/25 10:06 AM, Kaulkwappe wrote: > > >

Re: Bash shell uses wrong language

On 4/13/25 11:37 AM, microsuxx wrote: seems to cycle between lc : parts one loose .. No, these are all translated strings. hobbit:~$ LANGUAGE=en_US:es_ES bash --version GNU bash, versión 5.2.15(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Note the accented `o'. Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Founda

Re: Bash shell uses wrong language

On 4/13/25 10:06 AM, Kaulkwappe wrote: Hi! I use Fedora 41 KDE and my first and default language is English (primary) and my second language (secondary) is German. However, the Bash shell wrongfully uses the secondary language: bash --version GNU bash, Version 5.2.3

Re: Bash shell uses wrong language

seems to cycle between lc : parts one loose .. On Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 16:46 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 16:06:46 +0200, Kaulkwappe wrote: > > > bash --version > > > GNU bash, Version 5.2.32(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) > > > Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation,

Re: Bash shell uses wrong language

On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 16:06:46 +0200, Kaulkwappe wrote: > > bash --version > > GNU bash, Version 5.2.32(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) > > Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > Lizenz GPLv3+: GNU GPL Version 3 oder jünger > > > > > > Dies