Setting locales for gnome session

[Andreas Schmidt <andy@space.wh1.tu-dresden.de>]

Hi,

I'm sure that has been asked before, but I couldn't find a solution  
yet. How do I set the locales for a gnome session? I've read about  
doing that in /etc/environment, but I'm not sure that is quite what I  
want: to just set the locales for one particular user, not all users on  
the machine. I tried this in ~/.xsession:

LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1
LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE@euro
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO-8859-1
LC_COLLATE=de_DE@euro
LC_MONETARY=de_DE@euro
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.ISO-8859-1
LC_PAPER=de_DE@euro
LC_NAME=de_DE@euro
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE@euro
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE@euro
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE@euro
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE@euro
LC_ALL=

but this just to gnome immediately quitting after I logged in. So where  
do I set this stuff?

Best regards,

Andreas