Locale settings not honoured

[lists_mk at wujiman.net]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 02:54:24PM +1100, Terry wrote:
> I've noticed that locale settings seem not to be recognised in Xfce.
> 
> So far, I've had to use shell scripts to open Thunderbird and Thunar and 
> I will have to do the same for KSpread.
> 
> I have locale settings in /etc/sysconfig/i18n.  Should I link them to 
> some other location?
> 
> Help and the "online documentation" seem to be silent on the subject.

do you have LC_* environment variables set for xfce? 

when you start xfce, open terminal and type "locale". check, that the settings
are what you want. 

mk