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copied!<p>Note: since Git 2.3.1+ (Q1/Q2 2015), Git will add Accept-Language header if possible.<br> See <a href="https://github.com/git/git/commit/f18604bbf2c391c689a41fca14cbaeff5e106255" rel="nofollow noreferrer">commit f18604b</a> by <a href="https://github.com/npcode" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Yi EungJun (<code>npcode</code>)</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Add an <code>Accept-Language</code> header which indicates the user's preferred languages defined by <code>$LANGUAGE</code>, <code>$LC_ALL</code>, <code>$LC_MESSAGES</code> and <code>$LANG</code>.</p> <p>This gives git servers a chance to display remote error messages in the user's preferred language.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>You have <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6089435/git-gui-how-to-change-the-locale">locale for git gui</a> or <a href="https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools" rel="nofollow noreferrer">other GUIs</a>, <del>but not for the command-line, considering it was one of the questions of <a href="https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2010" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GitSurvey 2010</a></del></p> <pre><code>localization of command-line messages (i18n) 258 3.6% </code></pre> <p>Of course, since 2010, as <strong><a href="https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/po/README" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>po/README</code></a></strong> describes: </p> <blockquote> <p>Before strings can be translated they first have to be marked for translation.</p> <p><strong>Git uses an internationalization interface that wraps the system's <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>gettext</code></a> library</strong>, so most of the advice in your gettext documentation (on GNU systems <code>info gettext</code> in a terminal) applies.</p> </blockquote> <p>In place since <a href="https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">git 1.7.9+</a> (January 2012):</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Git uses <code>gettext</code> to translate its most common interface messages into the user's language if translations are available and the locale is appropriately set</strong>.<br> Distributors can drop new <code>PO</code> files in <code>po/</code> to add new translations.</p> </blockquote> <p>So, if your update has mess up the translation, check what <code>gettext</code> uses:<br> See, for instance, "<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Locale-Environment-Variables" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Locale Environment Variables</a>"</p> <blockquote> <p>A locale is composed of several locale categories, see Aspects. When a program looks up locale dependent values, it does this according to the following environment variables, in priority order:</p> </blockquote> <pre><code>LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_xxx, according to selected locale category: LC_CTYPE, LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_MESSAGES, ... LANG </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>Variables whose value is set but is empty are ignored in this lookup.</p> <p><code>LANG</code> is the normal environment variable for specifying a locale. As a user, you normally set this variable (unless some of the other variables have already been set by the system, in <code>/etc/profile</code> or similar initialization files).</p> <p><code>LC_CTYPE</code>, <code>LC_NUMERIC</code>, <code>LC_TIME</code>, <code>LC_COLLATE</code>, <code>LC_MONETARY</code>, <code>LC_MESSAGES</code>, and so on, are the environment variables meant to override <code>LANG</code> and affecting a single locale category only.<br> For example, assume you are a Swedish user in Spain, and you want your programs to handle numbers and dates according to Spanish conventions, and only the messages should be in Swedish. Then you could create a locale named ‘<code>sv_ES</code>’ or ‘<code>sv_ES.UTF-8</code>’ by use of the <code>localedef</code> program. But it is simpler, and achieves the same effect, to set the <code>LANG</code> variable to <code>es_ES.UTF-8</code> and the <code>LC_MESSAGES</code> variable to <code>sv_SE.UTF-8</code>; these two locales come already preinstalled with the operating system.</p> <p><code>LC_ALL</code> is an environment variable that overrides all of these. It is typically used in scripts that run particular programs. For example, configure scripts generated by GNU <code>autoconf</code> use <code>LC_ALL</code> to make sure that the configuration tests don't operate in locale dependent ways.</p> <p>Some systems, unfortunately, set <code>LC_ALL</code> in <code>/etc/profile</code> or in similar initialization files. As a user, you therefore have to unset this variable if you want to set <code>LANG</code> and optionally some of the other <code>LC_xxx</code> variables. </p> </blockquote>

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