On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:09:08AM -0400, Patrick McLean wrote:
> > No, it's needlessly unfriendly to users, and encourages broken packages.
> > et_EE breakage should be fixed, and slowly but surely is, and as for
> > unreadable error messages, getting German gcc output in a German locale
> > is a feature, not a bug. It can indeed be a problem in bugreports, but
> > it's a much milder one, since it's trivial to look up what any
> > particular message is translated from.
> 
> It's not trivial if you don't have the German locales installed.

grep through gcc/po/*, which doesn't require installation of the
locales, only that you didn't delete the gcc tarball after fetching it.
(Yes, I do it myself, and no, I don't normally have the gcc sources
unpacked.) Jakub, probably not very seriously, mentioned automating such
a lookup. Well, a simple shell script should do it, and if there is
actual interest in it, I might write it myself.
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