uutils/coreutils

"cargo install" only build in English

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#8,594 opened on Sep 9, 2025

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Description

with

cargo install uu_yes

we install the binary in ~/.cargo/bin/

This command ~/.cargo/bin/yes --help will show English strings.

We probably want to update this code: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/main/src/uucore/build.rs#L216 to detect the local of the system and embedded both english (for fallback) and the user translation locales.

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Investigate the build.rs file to add locale detection and embed user translations alongside English fallback.
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rust
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cli
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