Language used by setup-x86_64.exe

Takashi Yano takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp
Wed Jul 23 08:25:18 GMT 2025


On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:02:22 +0900
Takashi Yano wrote:
> Recent cygwin setup-x86_64.exe has Japanese translation and
> it uses Japanese when it is running in Japanese Windows.
> 
> However, sometimes I would like to setup-x86_64.exe with
> English. I tried:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=en
> however, all of them did not work.
> 
> Is there any way to force setup.exe to use English?

setup-x86_64.exe --lang 1033 did not work, but
setup-x86_64.exe --lang 0x409 or setup-x86_64.exe --lang 409 works!

Thanks!

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>


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