Changing the language for Subversion error messages
internationalization, svn
Solution
Try setting those locale variables to "C". That means that nothing should be passed through any translation engine.
export LANG=C
export LC_MESSAGES=C
that should be enough. If it's still throwing German at you, I think maybe I'd start questioning how you installed Subversion.
Problem
For some reason, subversion is returning me error messages in what I think is German: ``` # svn up . svn: Zielpfad existiert nicht ``` Unfortunately, I don't know that language... Before I resort to using a online translation engine to work with this, I figured I'd try to fix it. I figure I'm just doing something very simple wrong. I'm running subversion 1.6.4 installed via yum on centos (upgraded from 1.4.something that was having the same problem). This is on a VPS admined with CPanel. From what I can tell, it's trying to load english messages and failing. I see this in the strace output: ``` open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/subversion.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) brk(0x4106d000) = 0x4106d000 open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ``` Normal SVN commands are in english (svn help, svn help up, etc), just the error messages are in german. For all I know, it's been this way the whole time I've used the machine and I've just never gotten an error message from Subversion... ``` :: locale LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER="en_US" LC_NAME="en_US" LC_ADDRESS="en_US" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" LC_ALL= ``` I've also run: ``` export LC_MESSAGES=en_US export LANG=en_US ``` Any ideas what I should be looking at next? Update: Based on Phil's suggestion, I've run ``` export LANG=C export LC_MESSAGES=C ``` and now locale outputs: ``` LANG=C LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES=C LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL= ``` And it still is giving german messages... I'm beginning to think the version of subversion I have was compiled with German messages, and since it's not finding any language-specific message files, I'm getting the built-in German messages. Now to figure out how that happened....