Bug#731443: gnome-terminal forces default character encoding to ANSIX3.4-1968 (ASCII) but doesn't set up LC_CTYPE

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2013-12-05 15:31:30 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> GNOME Terminal does neither. I have UTF-8 locales, but GNOME Terminal
> sets the character encoding to ANSIX3.4-1968[*] (ASCII) and lets
> LC_CTYPE unchanged (en_US.UTF-8 in my case), yielding garbage with
> some applications (e.g. Mutt).
> 
> [*] The Terminal → Set Character Encoding menu has the following
> selected by default:
> 
>   Current Locale (ANSIX3.4-1968)

This problem doesn't occur when I run gnome-terminal on a different
machine via ssh: I get "Current Locale (UTF-8)" as expected.

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