Where is the $LANG variable defined?

[Björn Persson]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 06:46:10PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> 
>>SSH might not be the right place to solve the problem. It certainly 
>>mustn't try to transcode the contents of files in transfer or tunneled 
>>TCP sessions, but *something* has to transcode text displayed in the 
>>terminal window and filenames.
> 
> And something does -- set the LANG variable right, and it'll work, right?

If it's that easy, why doesn't SSH set LANG? Why should I have a lot of 
trouble doing this manually every time? And how does that help with 
filenames?

Björn Persson