From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-12.4 i686; Nav) Description of problem: Please see attached picture, there you can see "date" command misbehaving. That printout is generated on /etc/rc.sysinit with this line: action $"Setting clock $CLOCKDEF: `date`" date Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reborn as native Finnish citizen. 2. Learn to understand Finnish etc. and install Red Hat Rawhide. 3. Set your locale to Finnish. 4. Boot system and read boot messages. Actual Results: See attached picture. Additional info: initscripts-6.91-1 sh-utils-2.0.12-2
Created attachment 72805 [details] date bug demo
Ok, let's make correction to this bug repport. First: Official month names (starting from January) in Finnish are: tammikuu helmikuu maaliskuu huhtikuu toukokuu kesdkuu (note, due bug in bugzilla, that d is actually "a with two dots on it".) heindkuu (d on this month is also "a with two dots on it") elokuu syyskuu lokakuu marraskuu joulukuu As you can see month names in Finnish are quite long. They all have one repeating part: "kuu" (which means "month" or "moon" in English) which can be removed without losing any information. I think that's the idea in date command output. So that picture is wrong, those weird characters should be replaced with whitespace.
Created attachment 72827 [details] Corrected version of picture.
This is not reproducable here, on a current rawhide system. It looks like it was a bug in strftime() in earlier versions of glibc. [root@locutus sh-utils-2.0.12]# LANG=fi_FI date to elo 29 21:00:49 CEST 2002 [root@locutus sh-utils-2.0.12]# LANG=fi_FI date --date="2001/01/01 12:34" ma tammi 1 12:34:00 CET 2001 [root@locutus sh-utils-2.0.12]# rpm -q sh-utils glibc sh-utils-2.0.12-2 glibc-2.2.90-23
IMPORTANT: you have to reboot your machine to see the effect with boot messages. My locale is: [petri@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]$ locale LANG=fi_FI@euro LC_CTYPE="fi_FI@euro" LC_NUMERIC="fi_FI@euro" LC_TIME="fi_FI@euro" LC_COLLATE="fi_FI@euro" LC_MONETARY="fi_FI@euro" LC_MESSAGES="fi_FI@euro" LC_PAPER="fi_FI@euro" LC_NAME="fi_FI@euro" LC_ADDRESS="fi_FI@euro" LC_TELEPHONE="fi_FI@euro" LC_MEASUREMENT="fi_FI@euro" LC_IDENTIFICATION="fi_FI@euro" LC_ALL= [petri@dsl-hkigw4l83 petri]$ rpm -q sh-utils glibc sh-utils-2.0.12-3 glibc-2.2.90-26 The bug exists still. There are also other problems when I set Finnish as default language from gdm language menu.
This is fixed in Red Hat 8.0.
I can see this again with Raw Hide after modified settings.
Created attachment 82284 [details] Seeing is beliving and more info.
I guess this problem appears when you mix UTF-8 and Latin-9 locales. Other perhaps UTF-8 and any other locale. Still, there no reason to print weird character, no matter what locale is and how broken it is.