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One of the old classics, I think it was Plauger's book on POSIX, dealt with this in the l10n chapter. One of the examples was "the only customer for this software is the US government, so it only needs English" leading to "then they discovered that the US goverment includes that of Puerto Rico".

How many latin letters are there anyway, 26? 600? I read the latter number in an essay on what typesetters used to keep. Is ' an English letter, as in O'Malley?