visual studio 2008 - How to change MSBuild error message language?

Question

I'm on a Japanese system and when I run MsBuild.exe to build a Visual Studio project, I get a mix of Japanese and English in the output:

C:pathosolution>C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv3.5msbuild.exe solution.sln
Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 3.5.30729.1
[Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 2.0.50727.3082]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2007. All rights reserved.

Build started 2/18/2010 1:03:04 PM.
Project "C:pathosolution.sln" on node 0 (default targets).
  Building solution configuration "Debug|Win32".
プロジェクト : warning PRJ0018: 以下の環境変数が見つかりませんでした:

How can I change it all back to English?

Answer 1

To change the language of MSBuild's output to English, simply call chcp 850 in the same console before actual call of MSBuild. It changes console's code page and MSBuild uses it.