Re: Error Messages in wrong language

[Hans Åberg]

> On 24 Jan 2018, at 18:46, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Joseph Austin <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I asked this question on the user forum but got no answers.
>> 
>> My lilypond error messages are in Spanish, but my language is English.
>> I do have the Spanish keyboard options present on my Mac (Sierra 10.12.3) 
>> but I run Lilypond with it set to US English.
>> BTW, I know how to fix the error itself; what I don't know is how to get the 
>> error messages in English.
>> This just started happening in the past month (Jan 2018), but I have no idea 
>> what I might have changed.
>> 
>> Is there a Lilypond option to set user language?
> 
> LilyPond uses your system language, part of the "locale".

MacOS just sets LC_CTYPE=UTF-8; if one wants LANG=en_US, then that will have to 
be added, say by a
 export LANG=en_US
in the .profile file.