How to post messages in english

James Drabb JDrabb at tampabay.rr.com
Tue Feb 24 03:08:58 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 21:41, Alexandre Strube wrote:
> To translate is the easiest thing in a multilingual system: type
> export LANG=C
> before issuing the command. The messages will come in english, what is
> useful for posting the right messages into user lists like this one.
> -- 
> []s
> 
> Alexandre Ganso 

Or just append LANG=C to a command to have it only affect that command. 
For example:

    LANG=C ls
    LANG=C gnome-terminal

Jim Drabb
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