Why is LANG set to en_US.UTF-8?

[Jeff Kinz]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:17:14PM -0500, B Wooster wrote:
> why would Fedora be released with UTF-8 lang setting
> if all applications break on remote access?

Worldwide 5,822,000 people use languages which cannot be represented
using en.US and only 508,000 people ( less than 10%) use English.

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 will allow you to better read mail from the "other 90%"
of the world. :-)

Currently 64.8% of those online are non-english language users.
35.2% are english language users.  Current growth trends indicate that
this ratio, almost 2 to 1, will soon be 7 or 8 to 1.  

Stats from recent CIA publication:

http://www.glreach.com/globstats/

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