Spyder: language reset to japanese on reboot

[drammock]

Description

just updated to current master, running spyder via bootstrap.py. Language gets set to Japanese on every restart of spyder.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Open spyder
2. open preferences > general > advanced
3. set language to English, apply settings, close & re-open spyder
4. open preferences > general > advanced
5. language will be set to 日本語

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

interface language setting should persist across reboots.

additional info

Note that after setting it to English and rebooting, it loads an English interface, but if I change any other setting and click "OK" or "Apply" then it will prompt about needing to reboot in order to change the interface language.

Version and main components

• Spyder Version: 4.0.0.dev0 65bc403
• Python Version: 2.7.12
• Qt Versions: 4.8.7, PyQt4 (API v2) 4.11.4 on Linux

Dependencies

pyflakes >=0.5.0 :  1.1.0 (OK)
pep8 >=0.6       :  1.7.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0   :  2.1.3 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.2.0:  4.2.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0  :  4.2.0 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1  :  0.18.0+104.g1c8816f (OK)
numpy >=1.7      :  1.12.0.dev0+2af06c8 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6   :  1.5a0 (OK)
rope >=0.9.4     :  0.10.3 (OK)
jedi =0.9.0      :  0.9.0 (OK)
psutil >=0.3     :  3.4.2 (OK)
matplotlib >=1.0 :  1.5.1+1643.g0423430 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3    :  None (NOK)
pylint >=0.25    :  1.6.5 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

@rlaverde, please take a look at this one.

[drammock]

thanks @rlaverde !

[isalirezag]

Im using 3.3.4 version
i have the same problem, why this happens? and how to solve it?

[willois]

Had a similar issue and fixed by changing langconfig in "C:\Users\YOUR NAME.spyder-py3\langconfig" to "en"