diff --git a/simpleDots/exports b/simpleDots/exports
index 09f50cd..0c4721e 100644
--- a/simpleDots/exports
+++ b/simpleDots/exports
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ export HISTIGNORE=" *:ls:cd:pwd:exit:[bf]g:clear:reset:mplayer *";
 # aber nur wenn die locale gesetzt werden kann
 if [ -x /usr/bin/locale ]
 then
-  export LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
+  export LC_MESSAGES="C"
   export LC_COLLATE="C"
   export LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
   export LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"