Comment 18 for bug 617079

I am running into this same problem as well. I just installed Inkscape 0.48 on Snow Leopard 10.6.8, running XQuartz 2.7.1_rc2 (xorg-server 1.11.4). I have never run Inkscape on this computer before. The first time Inkscape came up, it came up in Turkish. I checked the System Preferences > Language & Text settings, and the default language is English everywhere. I also launched Inkscape from the X11 Xterm, and it displayed "default language: TR" on the terminal before opening up.

I was able to change the language to English via ctrl+shift+p, but it required some hunting around. Please look into a fix for this bug!