Env-locale problems

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale.

They say make sure your environment has (and the kernel supports):
LANG=en_ENus
LC not set
LANGUAGE=en_us

(Yes, the US rules the world!)

I may have my arguments with the parenthetical alleged fact but it is a fact 
that my enviromonent has exactly these items , no LC. Knoppix defaults to 
German but seeing all the keyboards and options around, I cannot believe that 
the kernel does not support en_us.

How do I fix this.