Looking for info about sparc solaris gnome and LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE

["Larry W. Virden" <lvirden cas org>]

Up until late yesterday, we'd been having some puzzling behavior 
trying to get kinput2 and some apps to work.  Turns out that something
in the gnome environment setup prior to a user's .profile was setting
LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE to "C" ; with those variables set to C, the kinput2
and the X input method functionality wasn't cooperating.  Once the
users unset the LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE variables, things seem to work.

Can anyone point me to a discussion of why these variables are set
and what the consequences are of unsetting them?  In what parts of
GNOME might we expect problems with them unset?
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