[raghava]

I don't think that is the case even now.

Don't know much about LatAm now but can comment on conditions in Asia.

In fact, internationalization and local language input (especially for Indic content) is much more neater and simpler in Linux as I have seen. And in India/Indonesia/Philippines especially, most SMEs/startups/mid-or-small-banks simply use English itself and get the job done. Except for some PR related stuff, all content and data that they manage is almost always in English only.