utf8 and gedit

["James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos jhcloos com>]

I recently discovered that gedit was ignoring my LANG (en_US.UTF-8)
and treating utf8 files as if they were latin1.

I've verified that gvim (linking to the same gtk+/pango/et al libs)
is doing the right thing.

Upgrading to pango 1.4 and gtk+ 2.4.0 didn't help.

Are there any know issues affecting utf8 locales?

Gedit it 2.4.1.

-JimC