bin/87724: cal(1)/ncal(1) not multibyte aware

Rocco Rutte pdmef at cs.tu-berlin.de
Thu Oct 20 06:50:17 PDT 2005


>Number:         87724
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       cal(1)/ncal(1) not multibyte aware
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 20 13:50:16 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Rocco Rutte
>Release:        5.4-STABLE
>Organization:
Berlin University of Technology
>Environment:
FreeBSD klaus.daprodeges.fqdn.th-h.de 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #11: Sat Oct 15 11:13:45 UTC 2005     root at klaus.daprodeges.fqdn.th-h.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/klaus  i386
>Description:
              cal(1)/ncal(1) (at least?) are not multibyte aware. They use %.2s as format to trim strings for output. That may destroy correct multibyte sequences and display garbage.
>How-To-Repeat:
              $ LC_ALL=hu_HU.UTF-8 cal
>Fix:
              
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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