+# Some systems don't set the LANG environment variable when starting xinitrc,
+# this causes problems for rxvt-unicode-256color which fails to display UTF-8
+# characters correctly when LANG is missing and for notify.py which also needs
+# LANG set (for Python's decode() function). Therefore set it here, might be
+# overwritten by shell setup scripts.
+LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+export LANG
+
+