Bug#443227: xclock: wrong geometry when running -d -norender with LANG=C

["Aaron M. Ucko" <ucko@debian.org>]

Package: x11-apps
Version: 7.3+1
Severity: minor

Running xclock -d(igital) -norender with LANG=C recently started
yielding a square window with a lot of extra vertical space and not
quite enough horizontal space (at least with my customary font), as if
I had instead wanted an analog display.  This bug appeared between
xclock 1.0.2 (xbase-clients 1:7.2) and 1.0.3 (x11-apps 7.3), and does
not affect other usages AFAICT.  In particular, working around #352967
by specifying a strftime format rather than tweaking locale settings
yields sane geometry (as does allowing Xft, but I happen to prefer
core fonts here).

Could you please look into it?

Thanks!

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages x11-apps depends on:
ii  cpp                       4:4.2.1-6      The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii  libc6                     2.6.1-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.4.2-1.2      generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                    2:1.0.3-1+b1   X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxcursor1               1:1.1.9-1      X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.3-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                   2.1.12-2       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxkbfile1               1:1.0.4-1      X11 keyboard file manipulation lib
ii  libxmu6                   1:1.0.3-1      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxmuu1                  1:1.0.3-1      X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.4-1      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.5-3      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  x11-common                1:7.3+2        X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc

x11-apps recommends no packages.

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