Re: FW: Emacs non-ascii characters

[Richard M. Stallman]

      But if the
    locale is "en_US", emacs starts with "Latin-1" lang. env. because
    of this entry.

I don't understand why that was done,
since this comment is not very clear.

        ;; Users who specify "en" explicitly typically want Latin-1, not ASCII.
        ;; That's actually what the GNU locales define, modulo things like
        ;; en_IN -- fx.

but I also don't see why we would want to change it.