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

[seer26]

> I suppose one reason this isn't done is because locale generation does
> take quite a while (maybe 20 seconds per locale on my system).  There
> are probably other, less obvious reasons this isn't done, but I don't
> know them.  One such might be http://bugs.debian.org/99623 ; but that
> doesn't seem to prevent generating UTF-8 most of the time.

It would be yet simpler to eliminate all non-utf-8 locales.
Or even take encoding out of locale alltogether, and have locale
specify things like collation, date formats, gettext strings,
etc. (then encoding always is utf-8)
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