Sourcebans writing in different language
 

I've been having this weird issue where SourceBans is giving users messages in Russian rather than in English, this is what a player gets when he's banned and tries to connect to server:
How can I change the language? I couldn't find the config.

Re: Sourcebans writing in different language
 

First of all, the rules also applies to you; please do NOT blank out posts, and when the solution has been found, post the solution for future readers to read!

The situation with SourceBans is that SourceBans translates phrases, so if someone (whose game is detected to be running in Russian), the kick message for him/her will be in Russian.

The chat message that everyone sees will have the exact "kick reason", meaning that the reason that the user was dropped would (unfortunately) show in Russian for everyone else on the server too.

To avoid that, you have certain options, such as for example:

• Set your server's language to English, and disable client language lookup.
  In addons/sourcemod/configs/core.cfg, ~ line 24-30, keep the language to English ("en"), and around addons/sourcemod/configs/core.cfg, ~ line 75-82, disable the highlighted "AllowClLanguageVar" setting.
  
• Remove all phrases and/or phrase-files (depending on the plugin's language distribution) for languages that you do not care about, that would make them fallback to English.
  In official sourcebans.phrases.txt, or the SourceBans++ sourcebans.phrases.txt file, remove all non-English phrases (= anything except "en").

The caveat of doing this is obviously that the user won't see it in his/her own, local language either.