nano language set to French when using version from homebrew

I just updated from OS X El Capitan to macOS Sierra this weekend. Everything went smoothly, until I opened nano this morning. Its settings are now in French:

I actually have 2 installations of nano on that computer: the default provided by macOS, and an additional version installed via brew. That's the one that seems to be in French right now.

$ which nano /usr/local/bin/nano

If I switch back to the default installation of nano...

$ brew unlink nano Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/nano/2.7.1... 44 symlinks removed $ which nano /usr/bin/nano

My problems go away.

Why would homebrew's nano install be in French, and how can I set it to use English instead?

Thanks!

jeherve

Posted 2016-11-07T11:22:30.010

Reputation: 151

I realize it's a tiny detail; I wouldn't normally mind, but in this case it changes some of the keyboard shortcuts (I now have to type o to confirm when exiting instead of y), and it's really confusing for my muscle memory. – jeherve – 2016-11-07T13:00:43.113

See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes/issues/658 and specifically https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes/issues/658#issuecomment-250991481

– ayaio – 2016-11-18T13:40:46.507

Answers

As suggested by @EricAya in his comment above, I was able to solve the issue by setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in my shell startup script:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

That solved the issue. For more details, check this GitHub issue.

jeherve

Posted 2016-11-07T11:22:30.010

Reputation: 151

Another possible solution is adding "--disable-nls" to the recipe:

brew edit nano

Then change the configuration options:

system "./configure", "--disable-debug",
                      "--disable-nls", 
                      "--disable-dependency-tracking",
                      "--prefix=#{prefix}",
                      "--sysconfdir=#{etc}",
                      "--enable-color",
                      "--enable-extra",
                      "--enable-multibuffer",
                      "--enable-nanorc",
                      "--enable-utf8"

This will disable support for non-English ("Native Language Support") and only use English.

ranvel

Posted 2016-11-07T11:22:30.010

Reputation: 121