When I crank up K3b, it complains about my setup, with the message "System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this has been done intentionally. Most likely the locale is not set at all. An invalid setting will result in problems when creating data projects. Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_* environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools take care of this."
It is correct that this is not intentional (it does seem antique). I have configured .mybashrc to set my LANG to "en_US", but nothing beyond that. What "distribution setup tools" is it referring to, so that I can correct this on gentoo? ++ kevin