diff --git a/pgpverify b/pgpverify
index 79a3f7b..3d77ca3 100755
--- a/pgpverify
+++ b/pgpverify
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 # written April 1996, tale@isc.org (David C Lawrence)
 # Currently maintained by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
-# Version 1.22, 2003-07-06
+# Version 1.23, 2003-07-06
 #
 # NOTICE TO INN MAINTAINERS:  The version that is shipped with INN is the
 # same as the version that I make available to the rest of the world
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # me about it; I want to know what old versions of Perl are still used in
 # practice.
 #
-# Changes from 1.15 -> 1.22
+# Changes from 1.15 -> 1.23
 # -- Bump version number to match CVS revision number.
 # -- Replaced all signature verification code with code that uses detached
 #    signatures.  Signatures generated by GnuPG couldn't be verified using
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ sub pgp_verify {
   if ($pgpstyle eq 'GPG') {
     @command = ($gpgv, qw/--quiet --status-fd=1 --logger-fd=1/);
   } else {
-    @command = ($pgp, '+batchmode');
+    @command = ($pgp, '+batchmode', '+language=en');
   }
 
   # Now, call PGP to check the signature.  Because we've written