Why is "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" the default in Fedora

[Guy Fraser]

Eric Wood wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Ernest L. Williams Jr."
>  
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>>Many applications seem to have a problem with the default locale in
>>Fedora. (e.g. adobe acrobat reader)
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>>Why is the default US.UTF-8?
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>Any time I use sed or grep on my script I make sure to set LANG=c first.
>US.UTF-8 slows grep searches *way* down.  It was so slow that I thought I
>had hardware problems - nope, just unicode slowing down my scripts.
>
>-eric wood
>
It also makes them case insensitive. #^%$$# ^&%*& !!!