How do I change my language in my init.lua? - neovim

Question

I've got the problem that the neovim language is set to German for some reason even though I only use a German keyboard layout (see this question). Unfortunately I am using lua for configuring neovim (the linked question provides an answer for init.vim configs) and even though I tried some things, I cannot figure out how to convert language en_US to valid lua code.

Answer 1

Simply use vim.api.nvim_exec() (or vim.cmd() if your NeoVim version still doesn't have it) to run Vimscript commands from Lua.

vim.api.nvim_exec('language en_US')

That should do it.

Answer 2

Recent versions of Neovim require an additional boolean parameter to set the language, so, this would be the proper command in init.lua:

vim.api.nvim_exec ('language en_US', true)