French Error Messages in BBEdit from Bash 4 on Sierra

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Jan 16, 2017, at 23:48, Christopher Stone <listmeister at thestoneforge.com> wrote:
> 
> [While writing this up I solved the immediate problem – but failed to discover the why.]
> 
> 
> Hey Folks,
> 
> Well, this is weird...
> 
> I only recently updated to Sierra and have been going through the expected teething period – updating ports, etc.
> 
> Yesterday I was testing a bash/perl script in BBEdit.
> 
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> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> 
> phoneList='(123) 456-7890
> (456) 567-9050';
> 
> echo "$p | perl -0777 -ne 's/(?<=78)(.*? 5)/'X' x length $1 /se; print';
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      ˆˆ
> 
> Somehow my variable got partially eaten, so when I ran the script it naturally threw an error:
> 
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> Jan 16, 2017, 23:08:47
> untitled text
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> untitled text: ligne 6: fin de fichier (EOF) prématurée lors de la recherche du « " » correspondant
> untitled text: ligne 7: erreur de syntaxe : fin de fichier prématurée
> ================================================================================
> 
> Imagine my surprise when the error message was in French — my macOS 10.12.2 system is set to English (U.S.).
> 
> Running same script from the Terminal returns a normal U.S. English error message:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> chris$ ./test
> ./test: line 14: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
> ./test: line 20: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Bash 4.4.5(1)-release was installed via Macports.
> 
> I have no language or locale setting options in my ~/.profile.
> 
> When I switch the shell to /bin/bash the error message in BBEdit (etc) reverts to English.
> 
> Switching back to Bash 4 (/opt/local/bin/bash) brings back the French error message.
> 
> When run from TextMate the script produces an English error message.
> 
> When run from CodeRunner it produces a French error message.
> 
> When run from Atom it produces a French error message.
> 
> I rebooted the system, and that failed to solve anything.
> 
> I uninstalled and reinstalled Bash 4 with Macports – nada.
> 
> I looked in my Language settings and French was item 2 in the preferred language list.
> 
> English (U.S.)
> French
> Hebrew
> 
> So – on the off-chance I deleted French and Hebrew, and voilà – I got back my English error messages in BBEdit (etc).
> 
> If someone has an insight into why this happened I'd be interested to hear it.

All I can add is that the GIMP UI is unexpectedly German for me. German is the second language in my Language & Region preferences, after English.