How to change MSBuild error message language?

Question

I\'m on a Japanese system and when I run MsBuild.exe to build a Visual Studio project, I get a mix of Japanese and English in the output:

C:\\path\\to\\solut         


        

Answer 1

environment variable for eng: set VSLANG=1033

Answer 2

You need to remove the localization sub dirs (e.g. for italian: "1040", "it", "it_IT") from the following directories:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\

c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\amd64\