Instead of having bash make judgements about what people want from their personal mix of: $ locale|sed 's/.*=//;s/"//g;/^$/d'|sort|uniq -c 2 C 11 zh_TW.UTF-8 instead just have a passthru option they could enable, that says "I hereby agree that I want to be sent raw -x output back, and if it looks weird, it's my own fault, 'garbage in, garbage out'."
In fact I forgot at the moment why they would see garbage.