MSBuild should respect upstream tool language requests
See original GitHub issueDifferent upstream tools have different language configuration requirements:
- dotnet CLI sets
DOTNET_CLI_UI_LANGUAGEandVSLANG(https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/issues/1596#issuecomment-409362785 https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/9722#issuecomment-409358296) - Visual Studio has a fallback mechanism guideline. In order:
VSLANGenvironmnent variable/lcidcommand line switch- call
GetConsoleFallbackUICulture(we only do this currently)
Related info: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/4988#issuecomment-266836559
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This should be added & fixed in 8.0 preview 5!
@hcoona I will add that you can usually search for the error code and copy the actual English error from Microsoft’s documentation, which sounds like it would not be a lot of extra steps, but in reality it goes more like this:
I’m sorry, but this whole thing is a terrible user experience.