Comment 13 for bug 57411

Mikko Rantalainen: I think overriding "en" as you suggest is going to come as a surprise to people who already have a well-established expectation for legacy behavior. Certainly Ubuntu should not make such a change unilaterally.

If it wasn't for the legacy burden, I'd support this suggestion -- it would be elegant and transparent, but alas, in this the best of all possible worlds, it would bring a nasty surprise for a significant population of users.