bash and $LANG and meta-key bindings

I upgraded from 6.2 to 6.3-prerelease and I noticed
something very
strange with bash (or perhaps readline).

I have had for many hears this in my .bash_login:

    export LANG=en_US.ISO8859-15

This makes 8-bit characters come out as accented characters
instead of
character codes like <C6>.  However, with the upgrade
to 6.3pre,
something has changed.  Same bash binary.

If I set $LANG like this, certain meta-bindings like this do
not work:

    bind '"M-p": history-search-backward'
    bind '"M-n": history-search-forward'

Before the upgrade, m-p would go to the previous command or
the
previous command like the one that was partially typed in. 
Now, it
produces a : prompt.  If I remove the LANG setting from my
.bash_login, it works fine.

So either I can have proper accented characters or I can
have working
meta key bindings with bash (and readline), but not both. 
Anyone know
of a fix for this?  Am I setting LANG in the wrong place?  I
have
tried putting these bindings into my .inputrc but that
didn't help.

Michael Grant
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