On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 01:17:29PM +0000, davidson wrote:
It seems that regardless of my locale (LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, etc), messages from GNU screen are always in English. Has anyone else noticed this, or am I doing something wrong? For the record, the following briefly illustrates what I do (for example): $ export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ; screen # set locale for tty and start screen $ exit # quit screen session [screen is terminating] The termination message above illustrates the unexpected behavior I am talking about. Also for the record: $ locale -a C C.UTF-8 de_DE.utf8 en_US.utf8 fr_CA.utf8 fr_FR.utf8 POSIX ru_RU.utf8 (By contrast, screen's ":time" command *does* obey the locale, though it displays non-ascii characters incorrectly, and as far as I know that is a different issue, possibly worth another thread.) -- The day will come | Last words, August Spies (1855--1887). When our silence will be | Hanged, by the state of Illinois, More powerful than | alongside fellow journalists The voices you strangle today | Adolf Fischer and Albert Parsons.
"screen is terminating" is only found in one place in the screen source code, namely at [screen.c:1824][1]. It's wrapped by the function AddStr() which is defined at [display.c:2946][2] and which appears to merely be concerned with encoding, rather than translating the string provided.
So, in summary, "screen is terminating" is hard-coded in english, and you should probably raise a wishlist bug requesting it be translated/translatable.
[1] https://sources.debian.org/src/screen/4.6.2-3/screen.c/?hl=1824#L1824 [2] https://sources.debian.org/src/screen/4.6.2-3/display.c/?hl=2946#L2946 -- For more information, please reread.
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