diff -ru gnucash-1.8.12-orig/src/bin/generate-gnc-script gnucash-1.8.12/src/bin/generate-gnc-script
--- gnucash-1.8.12-orig/src/bin/generate-gnc-script	2005-11-16 15:20:11.000000000 +0100
+++ gnucash-1.8.12/src/bin/generate-gnc-script	2005-11-16 15:20:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@
 ## shows weird characters in utf8-locales:
 #(echo \$LANG | grep  UTF-8 > /dev/null ) &&  LANG=\`echo \$LANG | sed s/\.UTF-8//\`
 
+VARS=\$(locale)
+VARS=\${VARS//.utf8/}
+VARS=\${VARS//.UTF-8/}
+VARS=\${VARS//\"/}
+export \$VARS
+unset VARS
+
 exec "${TARGET_SCRIPT}" "\$@"
 EOF