Bug#812597: libxi6: locale command in konsole comes up empty, utf-8 text problems after upgrade

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Package: libxi6
Followup-For: Bug #812597

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

After repeated upgrades and downgrades of libxi6, konsole came good on
the current version of libxi6:

$ locale
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

$ dpkg -l|grep libxi6
ii  libxi6:amd64   2:1.7.6-1    amd64        X11 Input extension library

I'm mystified as to the cause.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-rc1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libxi6 depends on:
ii  libc6     2.21-7
ii  libx11-6  2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxext6  2:1.3.3-1

libxi6 recommends no packages.

libxi6 suggests no packages.

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