this is my locale:
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
$ cat /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
this file will be executed when I logged on
$ cat ~/.kde4/Autostart/emacs
#!/bin/bash
LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.UTF-8" /home/tmjdone/software/emacs-23.2-build/bin/emacs --daemon &
this is part of .emacs file
(global-unset-key (kbd "C-SPC"))
(global-set-key (kbd "M-SPC") 'set-mark-command)