Setting user language explictly?

Hi everybody,
We want to use e-mail notifications for KM and our portal is connected to an Active Directory 2003 server. The problem is that there is no language defined for the ADS users, so notifications are sent in English even if I change the default portal locale in prtdefault.properties and prtcentral.properties.
If I explicitly set a different language in the user properties page the notifications are sent in the correct language for that user, but there must be a way to change this setting automatically for everyone? I tried messing around a bit with the datasource config xml files, but I couldn't find a way to set a specific value for a field. This is on EP6 SP2 Patch 30.
Thanks in advance!

I see. I think I found the service responsible in the com.sap.netweaver.bc.rf.service.par file, by decompressing bc.rf.global.service.notificator_api.jar and decompiling the AbstractNotification.class file. I will also try finding a more standard solution.
Thanks
UPDATE: We received a working solution from OSS, here it is if anyone else needs it.
In the J2EE server startup parameters, we added the following lines :
-Duser.language=<language code>
and
-Duser.region=<region code>
Now notification emails are sent in the correct language. Strange, because this setting according to the help document is at lower priority than the request.mandatorylanguage settings, but it works!
Message was edited by: Olivier Tremblay-Ross

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