Some commands produce Japanese characters

[lcs]

Shortly have receiving my iMac I noticed some commands produce Japanese characters in their response. How do I turn this off?:

coles-iMac.local 162: date
2011年 10月31日 月曜日 16時41分13秒 EDT

coles-iMac.local 164: wget -h
GNU Wget 1.13.4, 非対話的ネットワーク転送ソフト
使い方: wget [オプション]... ... 長いオプションで不可欠な引数は短いオプションでも不可欠です。...e, --execute=COMMAND `.wgetrc'形式のコマンドを実行する

 

[XJ-linux]

Try typing:

echo $LANG

And see if it says something like en_US.UTF-8, or something else.

 

[lcs]

Try typing:

echo $LANG

And see if it says something like en_US.UTF-8, or something else.

Thank you. It was set to ja_JP.UTF-8...why I don't know. How does that environment var. get set and where to I change it, /etc/csh.login?

 

[lcs]

Apparently this was something I inherited from macports. Sinister to say the least. Thanks again for the hint.