I stumbled into this issue via <http://askubuntu.com/q/836483>, and if I understand it correctly the issue is primarily not due to Ubuntu's language packs. In the case of VLC, the accepted answer at Ask Ubuntu indicates that modifying bindtextdomain() when building the program would be sufficient.
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