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Re: Please do not use en_US.UTF-8 outside the US: msg#00012

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Subject: Re: Please do not use en_US.UTF-8 outside the US

Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> As we are talking about en_US.UTF-8:
>
> General warning: Please do not use the locale name en_US.UTF-8 anywhere
> outside North America.

Why can't you use it for LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES, say?

Determining paper size by locale is rather strange. What's next?
Keyboard layout? Mouse orientation? Monitor size?


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