Re: Bug#1064394: release-notes: English language output for the commands into script session

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

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