Out of curiosity, what does setting it to 'C' do exactly that makes this work?

See for example:http://superuser.com/questions/219945/why-lang-c-not-d-or-e-or-f

To my knowledge "C" always gives you untranslated strings and so on every system the same; also important when parsing dates etc. So you get the English output from git. By using "C" instead of say en_US.utf8 I hoped to avoid using a LANG that might be unavailable.

Thanks for the explanation. My quick search this morning didn't come up with much and then I had to walk to work.

Thank you very much for pointing this out. Its quite amazing that I as a german dude never noticed it on my various english operating systems :).

Besides that, do you think you can create another pull request for the 0.3 branch ? The code there would probably have the same problem.

In any way, thanks a lot,
Sebastian