Comment 2 for bug 905051

Well-stated, Robert.

To offer a counterpoint, I think the main reason to make this change would be to maintain similarity with Moodle. Our lang system is based on theirs, but in the change from Moodle 1.9 -> 2 they changed their lang folders from "en_utf8" to just "en". So by still having the "_utf8", we look a bit outdated to potential Mahara devs coming over from Moodle.

But as you said, this offers no benefit at all to front-end users.

Cheers,
Aaron