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

[Emmanuel Seyman]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:06:46PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> 
> Look, I know that many folks in the world want to go the Unicode way in
> order to support new capabilities, enough that it's pretty much set in
> stone. But a great deal of software *breaks* when you attempt to compile it

Then you should fix the software instead of breaking locales settings.
Why is this such a big deal?

Emmanuel