bin/131578: /usr/bin/cal doesn't handle multibyte characters
correctly
robert wilson
hotaru at thinkindifferent.net
Tue Feb 10 18:30:01 PST 2009
>Number: 131578
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: /usr/bin/cal doesn't handle multibyte characters correctly
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 11 02:30:00 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: robert wilson
>Release: 7.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD olorin.thinkindifferent.net 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
/usr/bin/cal outputs incorrect utf-8 in certain locales.
a few locales that show this problem are is_IS.UTF-8, es_ES.UTF-8, hu_HU.UTF-8, zh_CN.UTF-8, ja_JP.UTF-8... el_GR.UTF-8 even causes it to crash with a segmentation fault!
>How-To-Repeat:
execute the command "LC_ALL=is_IS.UTF-8 /usr/bin/cal".
or, "LC_ALL=el_GR.UTF-8 /usr/bin/cal".
>Fix:
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