How can I initialize Gradle projects in non-English systems?

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I am trying to use Gradle on my Windows machine. The command I want to be able to use is:

gradle init --type java-application

But here is the error I get when I run this command on Powershell (or cmd):

> Task :init FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':init'.
> The requested build type 'java-application' is not supported. Supported types:
- 'basic'
- 'cpp-application'
- 'cpp-library'
- 'groovy-appl²cat²on'
- 'groovy-gradle-plugin'
- 'groovy-l²brary'
- 'java-appl²cat²on'
- 'java-gradle-plugin'
- 'java-l²brary'
- 'kotlin-appl²cat²on'
- 'kotlin-gradle-plugin'
- 'kotlin-l²brary'
- 'pom'
- 'scala-appl²cat²on'
- 'scala-l²brary'
- 'swift-application'
- 'swift-library'

As seen in the output, there is probably an encoding issue here. Because

java-appl²cat²on

is displayed as a possible type. I used versions 6.9 and 7.0.2 and the results are the same. My system language is Turkish but I also use Git, Maven etc. without any issues.

Here is the output of gradle --version in case it is useful:

------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 6.9
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2021-05-07 07:28:53 UTC
Revision:     afe2e24ababc7b0213ccffff44970aa18035fc0e

Kotlin:       1.4.20
Groovy:       2.5.12
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.9 compiled on September 27 2020
JVM:          1.8.0_231 (Oracle Corporation 25.231-b11)
OS:           Windows 10 10.0 amd64
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1 Answers

Update: Issue #17383 has been fixed and is targeted for Gradle 7.2.

You may hit a bug in Gradle. I was able to reproduce the issue by forcing tr-TR locale in environment variable JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS. I filed a bug in the Gradle issue tracker to have this checked: Build init plugin is locale sensitive.

As a workaround, you could force English locale for project initialization, in Powershell:

PS> $env:JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US"
PS> gradle.bat init --type java-application
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US

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