[openbox] how to change language for pipemenus

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Frank McCormick wrote:
> Strange problem today I have never run across before. I inserted a
> pipemenu in my menu today- it works...but displays in Italian. I have
> exported LANG=en_US.UTF8 and LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8 in the environemnt
> in ~/.config/openbox but nothing changes.
>
> All the other menu items are in English.
>
> I must be missing something.
it might be helpful to post information about the actual pipemenu - 
either the whole script if it's not too long, or a link to where it can 
be found.
maybe it _is_ italian?