Hi curaga, no locale was generated. I use default lang=C etc. the only 'customisation' is keyboard=gb (in X config) and 'uk' in kmaps. I do not mess with any language (English is enough for me). Not use TZ (for time etc). Just simple interface TC (flwm + wbar, aterm etc).
from aterm, the default variable (using set): 'G_FILENAME_ENCODING='iso8859-1'
other users are welcome to test my finding with bootcode= base, norestore etc...
EDIT: same bad results even after I manualy delete the folders /home/tc/.cache and /var/cache, to avoid possibile fonts cached inside them.
Edit2: the strings about 'conv' and 'ANSI_X' are as originaly:
tc@box:/usr/lib/gconv$ ls -al
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 Jan 20 15:23 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 660 May 12 16:32 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26616 Jan 20 15:23 ANSI_X3.110.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14328 Jan 20 15:23 ISO8859-1.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14328 Jan 20 15:23 ISO8859-15.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14328 Jan 20 15:23 ISO8859-2.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14344 Jan 20 15:23 UNICODE.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56352 Jan 20 15:23 gconv-modules