How to change the language used within the Cygwin terminal?

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mrgloom picture mrgloom · Mar 26, 2014 · Viewed 12.7k times · Source

When I'm using gcc in Cygwin I'm getting error messages in Russian which, for instance, looks like the following:

$ gcc -Wall kmeans.c -o kmeans
kmeans.c:260:1: предупреждение: неявное приведение большого целого значения к беззнаковому типу [-Woverflow]
 size_t used_size = ULLONG_MAX; // size of each file used, binary file only

However I prefer to work in English. Thus, how can I change permanently the language that is used within the Cygwin terminal?

Answer

IProblemFactory picture IProblemFactory · Mar 26, 2014

Try set env variable: LANG='en_GB.UTF-8'

Reference: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.0/gcc/Environment-Variables.html#Environment-Variables/

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