On Friday 29 May 2015 17:20:13 gevisz wrote:
> 2015-05-29 17:46 GMT+03:00 Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:

> > Do you get anything unexpected when you run 'locale'?
> 
> Nothing. (Thank you for your question.)
> 
> I have just re-read the Gentoo Localization Guide
> (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide)
> and checked what I have in my /etc/env.d/02locale
> file: every possible option, except for LC_COLLATE
> and LC_ALL, is set to en_US.UTF-8. Here is its full
> content:
> 
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE=C
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"

You probably don't need all these.  Mine are:

LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="C"

The rest are inherited from $LANG.

> Here is what I get from
> $ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_COLLATE=C
> LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_ALL=
> 
> I am almost giving up on this issue.

Hmm ... this is rather odd.  Just in case, you don't have in addition any LANG 
or LC_*  entries in your .bashrc?

-- 
Regards,
Mick