Accented characters with unstable

[Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant@etnoteam.it>]

Hi all,
I've just installed Debian unstable on my notebook, and I am having
problems getting apps to display accented characters (both console and
X).
The problem is not with displaying them: showcfont under the console and
gcharmap under X display accented characters correctly.
I believe it is a problem with inserting them.
I have an Italian keyboard and I have selected

	/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/it.kmap.gz 

as my boottime keyboard map for the console and my XF86Config-4 contains
the following:

	Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "it"

Under the console I cannot type accented characters (I get funny
inverted characters), while under X some apps work (Evolution, Mozilla),
but others don't (gnome-terminal, gaim, gnumeric, etc.)
When running Gdk apps I get the following message:

	Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

but my locale settings are as follows:

LANG=C
LC_CTYPE=
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

Can anyone help me ?

Tristan