Why is LANG set to en_US.UTF-8?

[Jorge Fábregas]

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 1:04 pm, 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.
>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 will allow you to better read mail from the "other 90%"
> of the world. :-)

Thanks Jeff.   Right on!