When starting JBoss as a service $LANG is not preserved

Issue

• The Java system property of sun.jnu.encoding being set to ANSI_X3.4-1968 on prod and UTF-8 on non-prod.  The issue is caused by the way that JBoss is started.  If "/etc/init.d/jboss start" is called manually then it works fine (which is how JBoss is usually started on non-prod), but if it is started through "/sbin/service Jboss start" then it doesn't.  I read that java determines the value of sun.jnu.encoding from the $LANG variable.   Calling /etc/init.d/jboss directly results in $LANG being set to en_US.UTF_8, but when it is called through /sbin/service then it is set to nothing/blank.