problems with diacritic characters in fedora8

[Natxo Asenjo]

2008/1/21 Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo at gmail.com>:
> On Jan 21, 2008 1:32 AM, Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> wrote:

I noticed something else. This is the output of $ locale:

> > > LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> > > LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> > > LC_TIME="en_US"
> > > LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> > > LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> > > LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> > > LC_PAPER="en_US"
> > > LC_NAME="en_US"
> > > LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
> > > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
> > > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
> > > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"

and this of # locale (as root):
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


> > Are you intentionally not using UTF-8?

no! if I look in /etc/sysconfig/i18n this is what I see:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

any more ideas? I really do not understand it. This is so ... nineties.
-- 
Groeten,
J.Asenjo