diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 0950efb9..a1451cb6 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ v2.0.0 (TBA)
 -Added output to list Apktool version to help debugging.
 -Updated known bytes for configurations to 38 (from addition of layout direction)
 -Fixed NPE when handling odex apks even with --no-src specified. (Thanks Rodrigo Chiossi)
+-Fixed locale problems when locale changes meaning of default letters in windows .bat script (Thanks Adem666)
 
 v1.5.2 (Released February 2 - 2013) Codename: Bug Fixes
 -Fixed (issue #299) - output smali filename errors to screen during rebuild instead of filestream
diff --git a/scripts/windows/apktool.bat b/scripts/windows/apktool.bat
index 7d2cddb5..a475b9f6 100755
--- a/scripts/windows/apktool.bat
+++ b/scripts/windows/apktool.bat
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 @echo off
 set PATH=%CD%;%PATH%;
-java -jar "%~dp0\apktool.jar" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
+java -jar -Duser.language=en "%~dp0\apktool.jar" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9