wget doesn't use C locale to compile .po locale files. My locale being Japanese made baby Jesus cry when trying to compile wget's de .po (I guess my locale thought it was a newline and cut it out). The patch provided fixes that :P.
Created attachment 43701 [details, diff] wget-1.9.1-locale.patch
I'm on leave of absence for the next 45-90 days, sorry :/
In cvs.