--- config/gnomerc.in.orig	Wed Jul 24 15:52:07 2002
+++ config/gnomerc.in	Wed Jul 24 15:52:26 2002
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 # Do we have gnome-volume-control?
 # If so we should run it to load the gnome-volume-control settings
+LC_CTYPE= ; export LC_CTYPE
 if command -v gnome-volume-control > /dev/null 2>&1; then
 	gnome-volume-control -i
 else if [ -x @EXPANDED_BINDIR@/gnome-volume-control > /dev/null 2>&1; then