>> Sometime in the past week or two, doing and emerge sync/update
>> appears to have changed the default charset from iso-8859 to
>> UTF8.  There are still too many apps I use everyday that don't
>> support UTF8, so this was a problem.
>>
>> Creating /etc/env.d/02locale and running env-update fixed the
>> problem, but I'm curious how/when the default changed.
>
> IIRC the default locale is either C or POSIX unless you
> specifically alter it.
>
> grep the contents of /etc/env.d/ for LANG or LC_ALL and use
> equery to see which ebuilds own any files that appear.

Neither was present in env.d nor the environment until I
created /etc/env.d/02locale.  Running 'locale' showed both of
them unset, and everything else it showed was POSIX.

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