diff --git a/pgpverify b/pgpverify
index b361607..e703ae4 100755
--- a/pgpverify
+++ b/pgpverify
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 #! /usr/bin/perl -w
 # written April 1996, tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence)
-# Version 1.4
+# Version 1.5
+#
+# Changes from 1.4 -> 1.5
+# -- force English lanugage for 'Good signature from user' by passing
+#    +language=en on pgp command line, rather than setting the
+#    environment variable LANGUAGE to 'en'.
 #
 # Changes from 1.3 -> 1.4
 # -- now handles wrapped headers that have been unfolded.
@@ -97,9 +102,8 @@ close(TMP) || warn "$0: close > $tmp: $!\n";
 &fail("$0: write error for message to check\n")
   if -s $tmp != length($message);
 
-$ENV{'LANGUAGE'} = 'en';        # force English for pgp messages
 $ok = 2;                        # unknown signature result is default
-open(PGP,"$pgp -f < $tmp 2>&1 >/dev/null |") ||
+open(PGP,"$pgp -f +language=en < $tmp 2>&1 >/dev/null |") ||
   &fail("$0: failed to execute pgp: $!\n");
 
 $/ = "\n";