On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Sam Hartman via RT wrote:

> Here's the patch we're using in Debian for this:
> I was planning on submitting after it made it into a Debian release:

Thanks, Sam.
Greg and I had talked about this some, and we were planning to change the 
calls in all the clients from setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "") to 
setlocale(LC_ALL, ""), since we believe that this should be safe.
(If anything is going on the wire that is subjet to localization, that is 
a bug.)  This has the advantage of keeping everything consistent, and we 
can run the test suite with LC_ALL=C as well.

-Ben