How to set zsh terminal's error message language to English?

JasonJarvan

1/22/24, 11:53 AM

I installed zsh but found the error message is Chinese, which is the local machine's language. I want to set it to English.

I edited my ~/.zshrc file and set

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

. After reboot my zsh by source ~/.zshrc and use command locale, the output is:

➜  Documents locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

While the error message is not changed, it's still Chinese, like this:

zsh: 是一个目录: /usr/share/man/

I am confused, how to set my error message and output of zsh to English?

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muru

1/22/24, 12:32 PM

You can see `LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh`, which is probably where the Chinese is coming from.

FedKad

1/22/24, 2:08 PM

Run `update-locale LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8`.

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