Getting Rid Of UTF-8

[Grønn Demon <webmaster groenndemon de>]

Hi,

I use Gentoo Linux and would like to get rid of UTF-8 in Gnome.
Although I have 'export LANG="de_DE euro"' in my ~/.bashrc, Gnome would 
still use UTF-8, which is terribly annoying since some fonts are screwed 
up and I have to set the terminal to ISO-8859-15 manually each time I 
start it.

But these problems only occur when I use gdm; with startx everything 
works like a charm.
It seems like gdm simply ignores my settings: I hadn't properly 
configured my ATI drivers, which caused startx to crash, but gdm could 
still start Gnome. Also I had configured blue cursors in ~/.Xdefaults, 
which only appeared for a few seconds with gdm - with startx they stay 
there.

Furthermore, I'd like to set the gdm login screen's language to German.
How would I do that?

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards,

Marvin Massih