The mxmlc compiler displays the compilation errors in Japanese - and I want them in English!

Question

Working in a Japanese company I have to use a machine with
Windows XP in Japanese. The thing is that I can barely read this
language so it's really depressing when most Java apps (and Flex,
through Eclipse, is one of them) outsmart themselves and default to
displaying their UI strings/messages in Japanese
without giving the user the ability to select another
language.
When compiling Flex apps using Flex Builder 2, the mxmlc
compiler is internally called by the IDE to perform the compilation
and then its output is displayed in the Problems View.
Well, the English version of mxmlc, has all its messages
(compilation warnings, errors etc) translated into Japanese (as far
as I can tell, they are hardwired into the exe). So although I'm
using the English version of the FB2,
with -locale en_US specified as an argument for the
compiler, all the compilation erros are reported in Japanese!
Even after changes in "flex-config.xml" and "jvm.config" as
you can see below, the compilation errors are still in Japanese. I
started to doubt that there's a solution to this problem but I
really hope there is one.
TIA,
.x.
Here are the relevant portions of my config files and an
example of mxmlc's output (Japanese might not display correctly):
-- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 2\Flex SDK
2\frameworks\flex-config.xml --
<flex-config>
<compiler>
<!-- Turn on generatation of accessible swfs. -->
<accessible>false</accessible>
<!-- Specifies the locale for internationalization.
-->
<locale>en_US</locale>
</compiler>
</flex-config>
-- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 2\Flex SDK
2\bin\jvm.config --
# Arguments to VM
java.args=-Xmx384m -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false
-Duser.language=en
-- mxmlc invoked on the command line --
mxmlc -o ASCIIArt -locale en_US ASCIIArt.mxml
Loading configuration file C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex
Builder 2\Flex SDK 2\frameworks\flex-config.xml
ASCIIArt\AsciiArtBuilder.as(7): col: 45 Error:
定義
com.example.programmingas3.asciiArt:BitmapToAsciiConverter
が見つかりません。
import
com.example.programmingas3.asciiArt.BitmapToAsciiConverter;
^
ASCIIArt\AsciiArtBuilder.as(8): col: 45 Error:
定義 com.example.programmingas3.asciiArt:Image
が見つかりません。
import com.example.programmingas3.asciiArt.Image;

Answer 1

inlineblue you are right about the "-locale" switch. I've
just found this page on live docs:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=L iveDocs_Parts&file=00001500.html
with all the compiler options
I thought that "-metadata.language <code>" (alias
"-language") sets the language, but it seems that it's only for
metadata.
So -locale is out. Thanks for clearing this for me. There's
one more path left...
As I wrote in my first message, besides the "-locale en_US"
compiler option, I am also setting the "user.language" flag in
jvm.config to "en":
-- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 2\Flex SDK
2\bin\jvm.config --
# Arguments to VM
java.args=-Xmx384m -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false
-Duser.language=en
According to the docs:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=L iveDocs_Parts&file=00001462.html
this is the standard (only?) way to pass arguments to the JVM. And
AFAIK "-Duser.language=en" is supposed to set the user language to
English. But it does not happen... I have to investigate this
more...