setlocale() for base system utilities

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Xin LI <delphij at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's inconsistency that some utilities use localized messages while some do,
> too.  So I don't buy that argument.

If one utility support catalogs, then localized messages can be fully
supported by providing catalogs for all the locales.  But if enabling
locale for a narrow-char-only utility, only 8-bit encodings locales
are supported, not all.  The inconsistency happens within the utility.

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