no, it's on musl, i just tested it with my patches, with vim, stripping will lead to unknown characters.

I mean, .mo files under zh_CN/ of vim is GBK set, while zh_CN/ of other apps is UTF-8 set, that meas there may be other apps like vim, we should be more cautious, add a check before map the .mo files, and fail non-UTF8 set in setlocale.

Btw, _nl_msg_cat_cntr & _nl_domain_bindings will block apps compiling with the native intl of musl, and after i added a dump for these two symbols, gnu tar showed me segfaults, because he passed a zero msgid1 causing __mo_lookup segfault, we should add a check in dcngettext to avoid it(if (!msgid1) goto notrans;):

 #2  0x00007ffff7d82a6f in dcngettext (domainname=0x6737a0 "tar", msgid1=0x0, msgid2=0x0, n=1, 
    category=5) at src/locale/dcngettext.c:211

2017-02-13 21:28 GMT+08:00 Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>:

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 04:01:31PM +0800, He X wrote:
> New find, as you can see, zh_CN is different from zh_CN.UTF-8, it's GBK
> codeset, we can't strip .UTF-8 easily, or we will get a lot of junk:

That's on glibc; your "finding" is irrelevant to musl, where the
encoding for all locales is UTF-8.

Rich