Where is default character encoding set?

[Chris G]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:41:47PM +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 09:50 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > ... but my gnome-terminals still obstinately claim a default of
> > iso-8859-1. 
> 
> Just to cover all bases:  Have you gone through the menus of the
> gnome-terminals and changed the encoding?  Perhaps changing to something
> else, then trying going back again.
> 
I found the reason, although I had "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" in my
environment I also had LC_CTYPE=en_GB which sets it to the iso-8859.1
variant and gnome-terminal was using that.

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Chris Green