Bug#343084: uxterm: unclear error message

[Nick Lewycky <nicholas@mxc.ca>]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:10:15PM +0100, Nick Lewycky wrote:
> 
>>uxterm tried to use locale en_CA.UTF-8
>>locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
>>locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
>>locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
>>
> I did consider this.  However (just refreshed my memory), the locale 
> program doesn't return an error code.  It writes some text to stderr.
> Given the limitations of locale (and keeping it as a portable script),
> the only choice appeared to be to show what the script was attempting
> to do, and why it failed.
> 
> Perhaps this should be reassigned to the package owning "locale",
> since that's producing the problem that you're reporting.

How about a wishlist bug on libc6 (owning /usr/bin/locale) for returning
an error code on error? Is there a standard covering the locale program?

Nick