What is en_US ?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 6/13/07, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:22:13 -0600
> "David G. Miller" <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
>
> > Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >
> > > > I know Americans spell a few words wrongly, but so what?
> > > > Plenty of people make spelling mistakes,
> > > > and it doesn't affect one's understanding in the slightest.
> > > >
> > >
> > en_US leaves room for en_RN (English "Red Neck" variant)
>
> Trivia:
> In the early days Red Hat did in fact include a Red Neck installation
> option, because there was a need to translate stuff and none of the US
> office at the time spoke anything but en_US and en_Redneck
>
> Alan


I fear we've come to a sad realisation.

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