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

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