On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:17:14PM -0500, B Wooster wrote: > why would Fedora be released with UTF-8 lang setting > if all applications break on remote access? Worldwide 5,822,000 people use languages which cannot be represented using en.US and only 508,000 people ( less than 10%) use English. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 will allow you to better read mail from the "other 90%" of the world. :-) 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. Stats from recent CIA publication: http://www.glreach.com/globstats/ -- Linux/Open Source: Your infrastructure belongs to you, free, forever. Idealism: "Realism applied over a longer time period" http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ http://kinz.org http://www.fedoratracker.org http://www.fedorafaq.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ~ ~ ~ ~
