UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console

[Graham Bentley]

 > From within which program?
No program, just the standard shell CLI installed by doing
a minimal install.

> You probably have to set the LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL 
> environment variable to something suitable to make programs 
> accept such characters.

How to do this? Also, I dont understand why? In 7.1 I do
a minimal install and it just works how its always done in
previous versions.