WAMP/MySQL errors not in correct language

Question

I've re-installed WAMP multiple times, searched literally hundreds of pages, and its not fixed this issue:

I've looked inside the phpmyadmin config files, set:

$cfg['Lang'] = 'en-utf-8';

Uninstalled multiple times (as mentioned) and seemed to have no luck what so ever. Any help would be appreciated.

Solution 1

To change the language that MySQL uses when reporting you need to change the my.ini file as follows.

Find this line:

# Change your locale here !
lc-messages=fr_FR

And change it to your prefered language, for example:

lc-messages=en_GB

To change it to English US, you can do like this:

lc-messages=en_US

Save the file and then restart MySQL.

left click wampmanager icon -> MySQL -> Service -> Restart Service

Remember the guys that produce WampServer are French so I guess thats why this has been added to the my.ini file, and they just forgot to remove it on this release.

How to Find my.ini in WAMPServer

Use the wampmanager menus like so :-

left click wampmanager icon -> MySQL -> my.ini

This will load the my.ini file into your editor.

Here you can find a list of valid locales

Solution 2

Change the following settings in my.ini file

lc-messages=en_US

To permanently change the language preferences

Solution 3

$cfg['Lang'] = 'en-utf-8'; and friends change the language for phpmysql, not for the mysql server, so anything coming from the database server itself will be unaffected.

You need to start the server daemon with --lc_messages=en_US (or put that in the relevant config file), for a per-session setting just use SET lc_messages = 'en_US';

Comments

[Dobby]

How do i do the --lc_messages=en_US in windows? :S

[Eugen Rieck]

IIRC you just put it into my.ini or my.cnf, whatever you have, in the [mysqld] section, like lc_messages = en_US, ofcourse you need to restart the server. Haven't used Windows in a long time, though.

[Dave]

Searching for the command may be easier as it is not on the first few lines. Thanks for the solution.

[James Wilson]

I set mine to: lc-messages=morse_CODE and now my errors are coming out like this: -.-- --- ..- / .... .- ...- . / .- -. / . .-. .-. --- .-. / .. -. / -.-- --- ..- .-. / -- -.-- ... --.- .-.. / ... -.-- -. - .- -..-

[RiggsFolly]

@JamesWilson Whatever floats your boat

[Ryan]

i just wonder why it is set as fr_FR by default. was deployed in production, before we ever knew.

[Sam]

after setting the language to en_GB or en_US using lc-messages you should restart mysql server.

[Dr Deo]

who uses french anyway as default production language

[RiggsFolly]

@DrDeo Well like I said in the asnwer, the nice people at AlterWay are French, so I assume while testing a release they find it useful to see messages in their own language!

[dg99]

This answer (formatting aside) is a duplicate of the already-accepted answer. Did you have something additional to add?

[tormuto]

And if you're an American English fan, use en_US instead of en_GB :)