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		liotier on Oct 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR Metric measurements, English-language UI, UTF-8 and ISO 8601 dates could make a nice international default standard locale.

shiroiuma on Oct 26, 2023 | [–]

I really, really hate how Amazon tries to force US customary units (inches, etc.) on me in automatic translation just because I set the language to English.

wang_li on Oct 25, 2023 | | [–]

If it weren't for Honduras we could have en_HN.UTF-8.

paulmooreparks on Oct 25, 2023 | [–]

Describes my custom setup exactly. It would be nice to have it as a default.

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