[Bug 93661] [PATCH] mc-wait-for-name --help shows translated characters as question marks on some locales

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93661

--- Comment #7 from George Kiagiadakis <gkiagia at tolabaki.gr> ---
(In reply to Ting-Wei Lan from comment #6)
> This is not a hack. This is the most common way for applications to support
> multiple languages. GTK+ automatically does the call for applications when
> gtk_init() is called. Calling setlocale with an empty string means the
> application doesn't force a specific locale but read values from environment
> variables. If a C program doesn't call setlocale, its locale is "C" or
> "POSIX", which is a minimal locale that has poor support for languages other
> than English.

Sorry, it seems you are right about that. I am still a bit puzzled, though...
mc-wait-for-name doesn't have any translated messages, does it? So the "C"
locale should work and display the English messages from the code.

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