Here is the response I've had to this internally so far:
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Currently, the data service API provides no support for
internationalizing the resource status message.
This is explained in CR (bugid) 4694069 .
However, the question here is whether the status
message *can* contain localized characters. If a
program (say, a data service method or monitor)
calls scha_resource_setstatus(1HA) or (3HA),
I believe that it could pass a multibyte string
as the status message. Our code just stores this
string, without examining its contents.
However, I am not sure
how such a string would be displayed by administrative
commands or the GUI.
It seems plausible to me that the string would be
properly displayed with localized characters, but
I am not sure.
Tim