Bug#562562:

[Dean Menezes]

Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 8.0.5
Severity: normal


It works in UTF8 locales only.  It does work in the C locale in the stable 
version.  

d...@beryllium:~$ env LANG=C calendar 
d...@beryllium:~$ env LANG=utf-8 calendar
d...@beryllium:~$ env LANG=en_US.UTF8 calendar
Dec 30  First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
Dec 30  Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in Madagascar
Dec 30  N'oubliez pas les Roger !
Dec 30  Dávid
Dec 30  День пожарной охраны
Dec 30  День памяти жертв политических 
репрессий
Dec 31  St. Sylvester in Switzerland
Dec 31  Winterland closes its doors, 1978
Dec 31  Bank Holiday in El Salvador, Honduras, Pakistan
Dec 31  Feed Yourself Day in Benin
Dec 31  Proclamation of the Republic in Congo
Dec 31  Jimi Hendrix introduces the Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East, 1969
Dec 31  Oudjaar
Dec 31  Bonne fête aux Sylvestre !
Dec 31  Silvester
Dec 31  Gründung der KPD, 1918
Dec 31          Szilveszter napja
Dec 31  Szilveszter
Dec 31  New Year's Eve


The UTF-8 locale is described in the calendar manpage but does not actually do 
anything.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii  bsdutils                  1:2.17~rc3-1   Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  debianutils               3.2.2          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-2       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand

bsdmainutils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests:
ii  cpp                           4:4.4.2-2  The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
pn  vacation                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  wamerican [wordlist]          6-3        American English dictionary words 
pn  whois                         <none>     (no description available)

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