Language : big problems with French !! :o(

[Kent Frazier]

You may want to run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' again and remove any
locales other than the UTF-8 version of your preferred language.  Make
sure that the UTF-8 variant is set as the default locale.  After I did
this, I had no problems, but I am from the USA and none of the files
on my native Linux partitions had international characters.

I did have a lot of issues, however, with the files on my NTFS
partitions that had international characters.  Before I upgraded to
Hoary and changed my locale to UTF-8, the international characters
showed up in nautilus as a box with the 4-digit ASCII code in it. 
After I changed locales, they showed up as boxes and I couldn't get
the terminal to recognize them at all.   I had to search around for
quite a while, but I finally fixed this problem by modifying
/etc/fstab and adding the option 'nls=utf8' to all my NTFS partitions.
 After that, everything works perfectly.