On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 01:17:29PM +0000, davidson wrote: > It seems that regardless of my locale (LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, > LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, etc), messages from GNU screen are > always in English.
That's because nobody has translated screen into other languages. I don't even know whether the groundwork has been laid to make such translations *possible*. Compare these outputs: dpkg -L bash | grep \\.mo dpkg -L coreutils | grep \\.mo dpkg -L screen | grep \\.mo