> I have always been setting the locale to En-US even though I have never been to America. This leads to a number of annoyances though. E.g. LibreOffice always

> I have always been setting the locale to En-US even though I have never been to America. This leads to a number of annoyances though. E.g. LibreOffice always creates new documents for the Letter paper format and I have to switch it to A4 manually every time > I doubt many English speakers (let alone those who don't live in a particular anglophone country) care to distinguish between English dialects. To us presence of a huge number of these (don't forget en-AU, en-TT, en-ZW etc - there are more!) in the options lists brings only annoyance, especially when one chooses some non-US one and this opens another can of worms. Well, you just explained what this plethora of options is about. It's not just about how you spell flavor/flavour. It's a lot of different defaults for how you expect your OS to present information to you. Default paper size, but also how to write date and time, does the week start on Monday, Sunday, or something else, etc.