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messages from GNU screen always in English

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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.

Has anyone else noticed this, or am I doing something wrong?

For the record, the following briefly illustrates what I do (for
example):

  $ export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ; screen # set locale for tty and start screen
  $ exit # quit screen session
  [screen is terminating]

The termination message above illustrates the unexpected behavior I am
talking about.

Also for the record:

  $ locale -a
  C
  C.UTF-8
  de_DE.utf8
  en_US.utf8
  fr_CA.utf8
  fr_FR.utf8
  POSIX
  ru_RU.utf8

(By contrast, screen's ":time" command *does* obey the locale, though
it displays non-ascii characters incorrectly, and as far as I know
that is a different issue, possibly worth another thread.)

-- 
  The day will come              |  Last words, August Spies (1855--1887).
  When our silence will be       |  Hanged, by the state of Illinois,
  More powerful than             |  alongside fellow journalists
  The voices you strangle today  |  Adolf Fischer and Albert Parsons.

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messages from GNU screen always in English davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-08-09 15:20 +0200
  Re: messages from GNU screen always in English Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-09 15:30 +0200
  Re: messages from GNU screen always in English Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-08-09 15:30 +0200
    Re: messages from GNU screen always in English Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-12 15:50 +0200
  [solved] Re: messages from GNU screen always in English davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-08-09 16:00 +0200
    Re: Brother or Canon; not both "Allen Hoover" <altech@emypeople.net> - 2018-08-09 16:10 +0200
    Re: [solved] Re: messages from GNU screen always in English <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-09 16:10 +0200

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