Why is LANG set to en_US.UTF-8?

[hlshaw]

Jeff Kinz wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:17:14PM -0500, B Wooster wrote:
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>>why would Fedora be released with UTF-8 lang setting
>>if all applications break on remote access?
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>Worldwide 5,822,000 people use languages which cannot be represented
>using en.US and only 508,000 people ( less than 10%) use English.
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>LANG=en_US.UTF-8 will allow you to better read mail from the "other 90%"
>of the world. :-)
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>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.  
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>Stats from recent CIA publication:
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>http://www.glreach.com/globstats/
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Being an American, you should know.....that history teaches us...."Never 
believe anything coming from the CIA"!! ( that includes statistics!!)