Thanks a lot for the clear instruction how to reproduce! Fixed in rev809, will be available in next release.
-- Jaap On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Thomas Prokosch <thomas-10-debb...@nadev.net > wrote: > Package: zim > Version: 0.65-2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I recently upgraded zim from version 0.63 to 0.65. Unfortunately, on > one of my machines zim showed weird behaviour: It could no longer > display the calendar widget of the Journal plugin, and switching to > the page for the current day (using Alt+D keyboard shortcut) opened an > empty page saying "None" instead of today's date. > > This behaviour showed on some machines but not on others. The > difference between these machines is the default locale for the > system. After some testing I found out the following: > > LC_ALL=C zim <notebook>, and > LC_ALL=POSIX zim <notebook> > > shows the previously described malformed behaviour, while > > LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 zim <notebook>, > > and any other UTF-8 enabled locale I tried (such as en_US.utf8) shows > the proper date along with the calendar widget in the sidepane. > > The old version of Zim (0.63) could always generate a proper date > string. I am not sure what is the cause for this behaviour change but > it is not depending on a particular notebook - this behaviour is > reproducible with a new notebook as well. > > Anyway, no matter what the locale, Zim should be able to generate a > proper date string and show the calendar widget if requested. > > Best regards, > Thomas > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldoldstable-updates'), (500, > 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL > set to C.UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages zim depends on: > ii python 2.7.11-1 > ii python-gobject 3.18.2-2 > ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-4 > ii python-xdg 0.25-4 > pn python:any <none> > > Versions of packages zim recommends: > pn python-gtkspell <none> > > Versions of packages zim suggests: > pn bzr <none> > pn ditaa <none> > ii dvipng 1.14-2+b1 > ii git 1:2.6.4-1 > pn gnuplot <none> > ii graphviz 2.38.0-12+b1 > pn lilypond <none> > ii mercurial 3.5.2-2 > pn python-zeitgeist <none> > pn r-base <none> > pn scrot <none> > > -- no debconf information > >