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

To: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Please do not use en_US.UTF-8 outside the US
From: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 22:50:26 +0200
Cc: linux-utf8@xxxxxxxxxxxx, i18n@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <E172eIi-00069m-00@wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk> (Markus Kuhn's message of "Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:32:39 +0100")
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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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