Even if I know that it's already on the todo list:

* @todo fp>Actually, the default locale setting should move to install and we should always use the database after that. What were we smoking when we did that? :P

During installation process it will be great if we have an option to select the charset. If you want to configure b2evo for non-english you have to follow Afwas how to: http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=13366

I'm adding it to feature request, it's a kind of up ^^