Hi Norbert et al., > it seems that msgfmt has problems when run in a C locale […] > [force a] utf8 locale during the build process
I'm not sure whether the following applies in the case of msgfmt; this is more of a general remark. One thing I picked up via the Reproducible Builds project (has it happens to vary such things) is that simply forcing the locale in the build (or the timezone, etc. etc.) can move errors/warnings/bugs to our users at runtime. In other words, simply forcing the *build* to do the right thing can mean we are hiding issues that should be fixed elsewhere Just as one example, a timezone library that did not work properly in timezones beyond UTC+0800, etc. Forcing the build to be in UTC would certainly fix the FTBFS but... *grin* Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-