sincere thanks
Gottfried

Am 24.10.22 um 15:19 schrieb Luis Felipe:
> Hi Gottfried,
> 
> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Monday, October 24th, 2022 at 12:17, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> 
> What I do is set the LANG variable to C. For example, in a terminal, you'd run:
> 
>    LANG=C guix describe
> 
> And you'd get the output in English only for that command. If you run it again without the "LANG=C" part, you should see the output in German.
> 
> I see the value C as "the language or locale in which programs were originally written". In this case it is English because Guix is written in English.
> 
> You can use the same trick to use programs in any of the languages they are localized to. For example, the following prints the output in French:
> 
>    LANG=fr_FR.utf8 guix describe
> 
> To find out what kind of values you can pass to LANG, you can run the following command:
> 
>    locale --all
> 
> That command is provided by the package "gcc-toolchain".
> 
> Hope that helps,
>