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?

Answer 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/

Answer 2

adding:

export LANG='en_GB.UTF-8'

to:

~/.bashrc

did the trick for me.

Answer 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

Answer 4

Another workaround is:

export LC_ALL=C; unset LANGUAGE