On Wed, 07 May 2008 09:22:31 -0700, Jim Leonard wrote:

> How is this getting set differently than what I have defined in /etc/
> default/init?

Some application may have set a different locale. See locale(5).

> Is there a graceful way to fix this? I know I can just put "export
> LC_xxx=xx" into /etc/profile but that seems hackish.

You might be able to track where it got changed. From a fresh boot log in
on console and see what locale values have been set. As Colin B.
indicated it may be Gnome which is doing this; you haven't mentioned what
kind of environment you're using.