Bug#528657: locales: shs_CA locale causes segfault while running cal
reassign 528657 bsdmainutils
thanks
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 02:29:20PM +0200, Євгеній Мещеряков wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.9-12
> Severity: normal
>
> It seems there is a problem in shs_CA locale:
>
> % LC_ALL=shs_CA.UTF-8 cal
> ����� ����� �����
> Sx Sp Se Ke Me Ts Tq
> 1 2
> 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
> 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
> 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
> 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
> 31
> zsh: segmentation fault LC_ALL=shs_CA.UTF-8 cal
>
> (there are some characters displayed as replacement chars, sometimes there
> are some other random characters there).
>
> I cannot reproduce this bug with any other locale. This bug can be reproduced
> with both locales-all and locales packages.
>
This is not a bug of the locale, but of cal. This program tries to
center the month, and does not take care of the case where the name of
the month is wider than the displayed calendar.
Reassigning the bug.
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