How to get the locale information

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Please don't top post, and trim unnecessary quoted materiel. I've rearranged the post properly.

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If the messages are going to be translated, they are going to have to be standardised. Therefore, ensure the clients only send the messages in a defined language and encoding. I suggest three sensible choices, in order of decreasing preference:

1. English encoded as US-ASCII 2. English encoded as UTF-8 3. (if applicable) Your native language encoded as UTF-8.

Translating arbitrary languages and encodings is not realistic, so defining a particular language and encoding for the network protocol (and internal application use) avoid this.

Use GNU gettext to create the appropriate message catalogues, and libintl to lookup translations on the fly. This is what pretty much every piece of software on a GNU system uses.

As I said before, no. There *is no such thing* as a system locale, and even if there was, it could be arbitrarily overridden by any process.

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