Nice you could track it down so quickly!..
I can see it is still in the recent versions (coreutils 8.5)
And yes indeed, I'm on fr_FR (or seems so, I don't have a LANGUAGE variable in env, but only LANG saying fr_FR)
$ env | grep -i lang LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 GDM_LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
And just to be sure, if I do the opposite of your test above
$ env LANGUAGE=en_GB:en od --help | grep strings -S, --strings[=BYTES] output strings of at least BYTES graphic chars
... it becomes right!
Nice you could track it down so quickly!..
I can see it is still in the recent versions (coreutils 8.5)
And yes indeed, I'm on fr_FR (or seems so, I don't have a LANGUAGE variable in env, but only LANG saying fr_FR)
$ env | grep -i lang fr_FR.UTF- 8
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=
And just to be sure, if I do the opposite of your test above
$ env LANGUAGE=en_GB:en od --help | grep strings
-S, --strings[=BYTES] output strings of at least BYTES graphic chars
... it becomes right!