mousepad and default locale

[jotawski]

Hi,

I am using xfce4 as my desktop and within this mousepad is a text editor. On saving file, if one do not specify UTF-8 as a locale, one will get an error that say

Can't convert codeset to 'ASCII'

when I use thai characters, non english characters, within mousepad. There is no error when using english characters.

Is there anyway to set the default locale to UTF-8 for mousepad ?

Any helps and hints are welcome and appreciate.

with best regards,
psr