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Franco <martellif67@gmail.com> writes:

" If you are comfortable with English language it's strongly
recommended that you run the following command as soon as you start
the 'script' session:

# LC_ALL=C.UTF-8; LANGUAGE=; export LC_ALL LANGUAGE

This will allow you to get command output messages in English into
the script session. By doing so, it will help you for searching the
web, during discussions or to submit a bug report."

Are we *sure* this is a good idea - i have some doubts?

-- "strongly recommended" by who? where did anyone previously make this recommendation and why do they feel so strongly that it is needed in
2024 when it has not been suggested before?

-- does anyone test the upgrade with this locale setting? telling people
to use something less tested seems like a bad idea.eg, i have
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 would i still want to change locales?

-- why are we suggesting non-english message are somehow less clear? if
so, we should remove translations not hide them?

-- why are we making the output harder to read for the user - that will
make it harder for them to fix their own issue. isnt this is the
opposite of what we want?

-- isnt it better to say that if you get an error in non-english to
search the web for the english vesion? it's not like you cant look-up
the english version of the error message

-- are we suggesting errors are likely? that isnt my experience with debian upgrades


(maybe it makes more sense to do this if the upgrade fails and you can't
debug)

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