On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 09:27:45PM +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: ... > > Error messages in Korean or Norwegian or whatever are less likely to > be intelligible to the average Debian developer reading a bug report, > or to the average user reading the appeal for help on the debian-user > mailing list.
Or worse! You might not even get to see the messages! I once had to debug a program whose messages got truncated in Korean. I did not know any Korean. It turned out that the two-byte code used for Korean contains a character one of whose bytes is binary-zero. The program, written in C, was doing the natural thing and treating it as end of string. I had to replace use of the C string-manipulation functions with locale-senxitive ones. -- hendrik