Why is LANG set to en_US.UTF-8?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Jan 19 17:10:34 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> Worldwide 5,822,000 people use languages which cannot be represented
> using en.US and only 508,000 people ( less than 10%) use English.

Hey now. I know a lot of us are barely literate, but still, I bet you can
find at *least* a million people who use English *somewhere* in America.

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