Terminal emulators usually send your current locale when conecting to an SSH server. I use Mac OS X in spanish and when I connected to a CentOS server my locale was automatically configured to es_ES.UTF-8 making most command outputs to be in spanish. I prefer using english so I can search error messages easily. Most blogs and web sites (Stackoverflow for example) are in english and I wouldn’t find anything in spanish.
To fix this you just have to disable the automatic locale setting option in your terminal emulator. In Mac OS X Terminal.app it’s in Preferences, Settings, Advance tab, “Set locale environment variables os start up”:
In iTerm it’s in Preferences, Profiles tab, Terminal tab, “Set locale variables automatically”:
