KDE and locale.conf

Since last two months I've been having weird issue with KDE, special characters in files don't display correctly.
I've upgraded my configuration files as it was told here
Now, my locale.conf looks like that:
LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=C
It is working ok when I'm logged on terminal, but in KDE session locale command gives me:
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
I'm not sure why, but KDE does not inherit locale settings, any idea what am I doing wrong?

Maybe KDE takes the settings from rc.conf rather than locale.conf? I don't have the latter at all and it seems to pick up the settings from rc.conf so that I get LANG set en_GB.UTF-8 and everything else as C (since DAEMON_LOCALE is set to no in rc.conf).
It definitely doesn't pick some of the locale stuff up, though, since it doesn't show the other generated locales in system preferences...

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EDIT2: Fix typo
Last edited by pablox (2013-03-25 13:19:42)

WorMzy wrote:
Looks like it is, I removed it from my .zshrc and nothing changed.
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Last edited by Astroarch (2014-09-11 17:56:30)

Then , I solved deleting the file and reinstalling fontconfig.
Byt he way, I do not post in the forum to be joked, if you mean to answer in such a way, better do not post at all.
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