diff --git a/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf b/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf
index e8f8e0ff..229f64ef 100644
--- a/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf
+++ b/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#$Id: recoll.conf,v 1.4 2005-04-06 10:20:11 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# @(#$Id: recoll.conf,v 1.5 2005-10-20 11:38:53 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
 
 # Recoll default configuration file. This should be copied to
 # ~/.recoll/recoll.conf 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ dbdir = ~/.recoll/xapiandb
 # documents, will override this. It can be specified per directory (see
 # below). Used when converting to utf-8 (internal storage format).
 defaultcharset = iso-8859-1
-defaultlanguage = french
+defaultlanguage = english
 
 # Guessing charsets usually does not work well
 guesscharset = 0