Alpine 2.2 should force UTF-8 to always be used in /etc/profile. It is 2011, and only power-users should be using other charsets. Plus GLib is expecting $CHARSET=UTF-8, which means GTK/Qt are too.

(from redmine: issue id 540, created on 2011-03-11, closed on 2011-03-14)

• Changesets:
  • Revision 70ae0126 by William Pitcock on 2011-03-14T16:34:47Z:

main/alpine-baselayout: set system default charset to UTF-8

fixes #540