Why is LANG set to en_US.UTF-8?

[James Wilkinson]

B Wooster wrote:
> Do I need to worry about breaking something else if I set LANG
> globally to just "en_US"?

then:
> I tried Putty - it does display man pages correctly, but I could not
> fix the line drawing characters, so mutt, slrn, did not display
> lines/arrows correctly.

In PuTTY Configuration -> Window -> Translation, under "Received data
assumed to be in which character set", choose UTF-8.

And in the Connection category, set "Terminal-type string" to "linux".

Mutt works fine in Putty for me.

James.

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