[MonoDevelop] incorrect locale

[Ilan Rabinovitch]

Michael Hutchinson wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch
> <irabinovitch at edmunds.com> wrote:
>> I recently installed mono 1.9.1 and the version of MonoDevelop which
>> comes with it on OS X 10.5.2.  MonoDevelop however appears to be
>> starting up using the Spanish locale, rather than my default which is
>> English.  (ie all the menus / prompts are in spanish)
>>
>>
>> Is there an easy way to set/change this?  While I speak spanish, I'd
>> much rather have it in English :)
> 
> This has come up before, but none of the MD core developers use MacOS
> (and very few on the mailing list do) so we were unable to provide a
> definitive answer.
> 
> MonoDevelop uses the common Gettext framework for translation, so
> setting LANG=en_US (in the environment from which you launch MD)
> should work. If not, I suggest you look up how Gettext works on OS X.
> 
> If you come up with an answer to this, please post it to the list :)
> 

Adding the appropriate locale to 
MonoDevelop.app/Contents/MacOS/MonoDevelop seemed to resolve the problem.