diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 9b0925f..70482c4 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Revision history for Test::Roo::DataDriven
 
 {{$NEXT}}
+  [Tests]
+  - Skip error tests if the locale language is not English,
+    as a workaround for locale issues, #6.
 
 v0.2.0    2017-12-17 00:21:59+00:00 Europe/London
   [Enhancements]
diff --git a/t/03-parsing-errors.t b/t/03-parsing-errors.t
index 7f4d197..06df439 100644
--- a/t/03-parsing-errors.t
+++ b/t/03-parsing-errors.t
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ package main;
 use Test::Most;
 use Path::Tiny;
 
+plan skip_all => "Error messages may be locale-dependent"
+  unless $ENV{LANG} && $ENV{LANG} =~ /^en/;
+
 subtest 'nonexistent' => sub {
 
     my $file = path('t/data/errors/nonexistent.err');