how can I force the hg executable to use English local for its output?

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Mercurial's output may be localized. This is nasty when parsing command output and it actually may break such code. Is there some command line option or environment variable which can be used to force Mercurial to use English locale?

More or less a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4592664, however the common term "locale" wasn't used there at all, hence it didn't show up when asking this question and for my initial search. — mstrap, Jun 07 '13 at 08:39

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '13 at 12:30

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If you're writing script that interact with the mercurial executable then you probably want to look at the Command Server, or if you're writing python scripts hgapi.

These will give you interfaces which don't have localised strings in them.

answered Jun 09 '13 at 12:30

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '13 at 18:59

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For a linux shell (Bash, bsh, sh), use:

LANG=en_US hg <status/log/etc>

answered Jun 06 '13 at 18:59

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how can I force the hg executable to use English local for its output?

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