title: Setting default locale for Tomcat Service in Windows XP
body: <p>I have installed Apache Tomcat 6 as a Service in a Windows XP computer (French)</p>
  
  <p>My problem is that Tomcat itself and all webapps (Sonar and Hudson) now show french messages.
  I want English messages of course so I went to the "Regional Settings" window in Control panel and changed everything to English (US)</p>
  
  <p>Tomcat however is <strong>still</strong> in French. Nothing changed at all.</p>
  
  <p>I suspect that because it runs as a service it does not pick the settings from control panel.</p>
  
  <p>So is there any way to trick the Tomcat JVM so that it uses English instead of French?
  I have sys admin access to the machine (XP PRO French)</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>