No locales are installed. Looks like this is the same issue as in bug #5547. Here is the relevant information from the build log. Not the linguas variable is empty. Making install in po make[1]: Entering directory `/media/system/tmp/portage/x11-terms/terminal-0.4.0/work/Terminal-0.4.0/po' linguas=""; \ for lang in $linguas; do \ dir=/media/system/tmp/portage/x11-terms/terminal-0.4.0/image//usr/share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \ /bin/sh /media/system/tmp/portage/x11-terms/terminal-0.4.0/work/Terminal-0.4.0/install-sh -d $dir; \ if test -r $lang.gmo; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $lang.gmo $dir/Terminal.mo; \ echo "installing $lang.gmo as $dir/Terminal.mo"; \ else \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$lang.gmo $dir/Terminal.mo; \ echo "installing ./$lang.gmo as" \ "$dir/Terminal.mo"; \ fi; \ if test -r $lang.gmo.m; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $lang.gmo.m $dir/Terminal.mo.m; \ echo "installing $lang.gmo.m as $dir/Terminal.mo.m"; \ else \ if test -r ./$lang.gmo.m ; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$lang.gmo.m \ $dir/Terminal.mo.m; \ echo "installing ./$lang.gmo.m as" \ "$dir/Terminal.mo.m"; \ else \ true; \ fi; \ fi; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/system/tmp/portage/x11-terms/terminal-0.4.0/work/Terminal-0.4.0/po'
0.4.1 tarball was build with intltool 0.41, should fix the problem.