I wrote:
> Experimenting here, it looks like 'C.UTF-8' might be accepted
> everywhere. I even got it to pass on Solaris's not-GNU gettext,
> which I thought for sure would be the weak spot in the idea.
> I'll press forward with that.
Hmmm ... the first batch of BF reports show that on some Linux
machines, it works to set lc_messages to 'C.UTF-8', but nonetheless
no translation happens. Did you notice any other gating factors?
regards, tom lane