How to change the language used within the Cygwin terminal?

Question

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?

Solution 1

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/

Solution 2

adding:

export LANG='en_GB.UTF-8'

to:

~/.bashrc

did the trick for me.

Solution 3

In my case the problem was fixed after changing locale (en_GB) and character set (UTF-8) on the Text page of the mintty Options

Comments

[mrgloom]

It works, but I need to write it at every start if cygwin terminal, can it be done once and for forever?

[mrgloom]

that helped superuser.com/questions/374892/…

[IProblemFactory]

Of course you can, just add it to ~/.bash_profile - that file is read every time terminal starts.

[Kyung Lee]

For Windows10 users, create a new environment variable, where the variable name is LANG, the variable value is en_GB.URF-8.

[Chan Kim]

Hi, my 'Downloads' folder name is in Korea (다운로드) and my 'Desktop' folder name is in Korean (바탕화면). Can I change those folder names automatically to English or should I change them manually?

[IProblemFactory]

@ChanKim you should change ur system language then ;)