How do I disable utf-8?

[Mike Hogsett]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> As UTF-8 is the future and only some applications have still problems
> with UTF-8 - non Fedora apps - you should start the application with
> "LANG=C program". If it is started as a service with an init script,
> then add the LANG=C to that script. I won't disable UTF-8 in general as
> Mike suggested.

I agree that UTF-8 is imminent, but too many things break.  My Acrobat Reader
would not run.  Bash 2.05 has problems (Meta-p: history-search-backward &
Meta-n: history-search-forward in your .inputrc don't work if using the Fedora
default for en_US.UTF-8).