Why is "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" the default in Fedora

[Shahms King]

> > >
> > It also makes them case insensitive. #^%$$# ^&%*& !!!
> > 
> > 
> 
> Actually I think it only makes the sort operations case insensitive.

That's a bit of a misnomer, it makes strcoll (not strcmp) obey the
comparison rules for the current locale.  In the case of en_US it means
that upper and lower case letters sort:

a
A
b
B
c
C

Rather than the 'C' (numeric value of the ASCII letters):

A
B
C
a
b
c

Note that upper case letters always come after their lower case
counterparts but before the next letter, so it's not case insensitive
and is, in general, what most people expect.

-- 
Shahms King <shahms at shahms.com>