--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/profile	Sat Oct 24 15:48:50 2015 +0100
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+# This file is read each time a login shell is started.
+# All other interactive shells will only read .bashrc; this is particularly
+# important for language settings, see below.
+
+#SUSE-ism for importing common profile stuff
+test -z "$PROFILEREAD" && . /etc/profile || true
+
+#Make sure that Thunderbird et al show correct dates and that all apps (not just Bash) get the right locale
+export LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
+export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
+
+#Set us up for XCompose support of custom characters
+export GTK_IM_MODULE="uim"
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