# Use UTF-8 encoding in the terminal. Don't use LC_ALL as it's used for
-# debugging purposes. Thanks to twb in Freenode/#screen (2009-10-02 10:25).
+# debugging purposes. Thanks to twb in #screen on Freenode (2009-10-02 10:25
+# CET).
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG
+# Make sure $LANGUAGE is not set. It's a GNU extension which can overwrite
+# variables like $LANG or $LC_ALL.
+unset LANGUAGE
+
# Add ~/bin and ~/.bin and ~/.shell/bin to PATH if available.
if test -d "$HOME/.shell/bin"; then
PATH="$HOME/.shell/bin:$PATH"