Title: Language of messages in emerge logs and output
Author: Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
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Posted: 2013-08-23
Revision: 1
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As of today, messages and logs of emerge do not use the system 
locale anymore but default to English. The intention behind this
is to ease the work of bug wranglers and package maintainers, 
who may have a hard time reading build logs in foreign 
languages. This change only affects the language of messages 
in emerge output, nothing else.

If you really want to have e.g. localized compiler error messages
in your builds, set LC_MESSAGES in your /etc/portage/make.conf.
Note that submitting localized build logs to the Gentoo Bugzilla
is discouraged. If maintainers are unable to translate the 
necessary information from the build log, your bug may be closed
as NEEDINFO and you may be asked to re-open it submitting an 
English build log [1] before any further action can be taken.

For more details with respect to localization, see
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/HOWTO

[1] LC_MESSAGES=C emerge ...