en_US.UTF-8 is the default locale

Most mainstream distros will have US English (and thus en_US.UTF-8) as their defaults at install time. Users will have to select something else if they want a different encoding.

Code may depend on the locale being en_US.UTF-8 and only that locale without penalty.

en_US.UTF-8 is the default locale

Most mainstream operating systems will have US English (and thus en_US.UTF-8) as their defaults at install time. Users will have to select something else if they want a different encoding.

Code may depend on the locale being en_US.UTF-8 and only that locale without penalty.

Most mainstream distros will have US English (and thus en_US.UTF-8) as their defaults at install time. Users will have to select something else if they want a different encoding:

en_US.UTF-8 is the default locale

Most mainstream distros will have US English (and thus en_US.UTF-8) as their defaults at install time. Users will have to select something else if they want a different encoding.

Code may depend on the locale being en_US.UTF-8 and only that locale without penalty.