My systems have LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=C There is substantial disagreement among the programs that I use [1] whether this constitutes a German local

My systems have LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=C There is substantial disagreement among the programs that I use [1] whether this constitutes a German locale or an English locale. [1] True, only those programs which are dumb enough to assume that locale is described by a single word like "German" or "English".