diff --git a/pydu/cmd.py b/pydu/cmd.py
index 1ae2858..de2f0d0 100644
--- a/pydu/cmd.py
+++ b/pydu/cmd.py
@@ -23,6 +23,26 @@ def run(cmd, wait=True, shell=True, timeout=0, timeinterval=1):
     return p.poll(), stdout
 
 
+def run_with_en_env(cmd, wait=True, shell=True, timeout=0, timeinterval=1):
+    """
+    Run cmd with English character sets environment, so that the output will
+    be in English.
+    Parameters are same with `run`.
+    """
+    if WINDOWS:
+        with chcp(437):
+            return run(cmd, wait=wait, shell=shell,
+                       timeout=timeout, timeinterval=timeinterval)
+    else:
+        export_lang = 'export LANG=en_US.UTF-8'
+        if isinstance(cmd, list):
+            pre_cmd = [export_lang, ';']
+        else:
+            pre_cmd = export_lang + '; '
+        return run(pre_cmd + cmd, wait=wait, shell=shell,
+                   timeout=timeout, timeinterval=timeinterval)
+
+
 if PY2 and WINDOWS:
     # enable passing unicode arguments from command line in Python 2.x
     # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/846850/read-unicode-characters
diff --git a/tests/test_cmd.py b/tests/test_cmd.py
index 9935e56..73c4150 100644
--- a/tests/test_cmd.py
+++ b/tests/test_cmd.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import pytest
 from pydu.platform import WINDOWS
 from pydu.compat import string_types
 from pydu.string import safeunicode
-from pydu.cmd import run, cmdline_argv
+from pydu.cmd import run, run_with_en_env, cmdline_argv
 
 
 def test_run():
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ def test_run():
     assert 'timeout' in output
 
 
+def test_run_with_en_env():
+    _, output = run_with_en_env('nocmd')
+    assert output.decode('ascii')
+
+    _, output = run_with_en_env(['nocmd'])
+    assert output.decode('ascii')
+
+
 def test_cmdline_argv():
     argv = cmdline_argv()
     for s in argv[1:]: