diff --git a/etc/root/dot.login b/etc/root/dot.login
index 21d3df0f2110..d1008cb8cc4b 100644
--- a/etc/root/dot.login
+++ b/etc/root/dot.login
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ set path = ($path /usr/local/interviews/bin/$CPU)
 setenv MANPATH "${MANPATH}:/usr/local/interviews/man"
 
 # 8-bit locale (germany)
-#setenv ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE
-#setenv LANG de_DE.ISO8859-1
+#setenv LANG de_DE.ISO_8859-1
 
 # A rightous umask
 umask 22
diff --git a/etc/root/dot.xsession b/etc/root/dot.xsession
index bacd60bb2643..588ee3ae898c 100755
--- a/etc/root/dot.xsession
+++ b/etc/root/dot.xsession
@@ -14,9 +14,8 @@ MANPATH="$MANPATH:/usr/local/interviews/man"
 export CPU
 
 # 8-bit locale (germany)
-#ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE=
-#LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-1
-#export ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE LANG
+#LANG=de_DE.ISO_8859-1
+#export LANG
 
 # A rightous umask
 umask 22