   :type 'file
   :group 'psvn)
 
-(defcustom svn-status-svn-environment-var-list '("LANG=C")
+(defcustom svn-status-svn-environment-var-list '("LC_MESSAGES=C")
   "*A list of environment variables that should be set for that svn process.
 Each element is either a string \"VARIABLE=VALUE\" which will be added to
 the environment when svn is run, or just \"VARIABLE\" which causes that
 variable to be entirely removed from the environment.
 
-You could set this for example to '(\"LANG=C\")
-
-Please report, if you have good experiences with the setting '(\LC_MESSAGES=C\")"
+The default setting is '(\LC_MESSAGES=C\"). This ensures that the svn command
+line client does not output localized strings. psvn.el relies on the english
+messages."
   :type '(repeat string)
   :group 'psvn)
 (put 'svn-status-svn-environment-var-list 'risky-local-variable t)

                    ;; such cases, the user should start ssh-agent and
                    ;; then run ssh-add explicitly.
                    (setq svn-proc (apply 'start-process "svn" proc-buf svn-exe arglist)))
                  (set-process-sentinel svn-proc 'svn-process-sentinel)
                  (when svn-status-track-user-input
                    (set-process-filter svn-proc 'svn-process-filter)))

            (setq arglist (car arglist)))
          (save-excursion
            (set-buffer proc-buf)
            (setq buffer-read-only nil)
            (buffer-disable-undo)
            (fundamental-mode)
