On Sunday 28 Aug 2011 09:51:36 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> following this guide:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml
> 
> Doing a
> 
>     locale -a | grep de_DE | grep utf
> 
> I got:
> 
>     de_DE.utf8
> 
> .
> 
> Then I created the file
> 
>     /etc/init.d/02locale

Hmm ... you probably want to create /etc/env.d/02locale instead.

Then set in it:

LC_LANG=de_DE.utf8

and perhaps: 

LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="C"

and things should hopefully work out as intended after you run env-update or 
logout/login.

-- 
Regards,
Mick