>    Ever since NLS dropped a file with byte-ordering
>    dependancies into /usr/share according to hier(7) has been corrupted.

This is a bug and should be send-pr'd :-(

I guess a correct fix would be to re-engineer nls so that message
catalogue files should be byte order independent.

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