Bug#313539: Week starting on Sunday found in etch

[Eric Lavarde - Debian Bugs]

reopen 313539
found 313539 2.8.12-1
thanks for the fish

Hi,

I could again reproduce this error with the version in testing (2.8.12-1).
The error disturbs me in jpilot but I can reproduce it as described in the
bug info:
$ cp -R /usr/share/doc/gtk2.0-examples/examples/calendar .
$ cd calendar
$ gunzip calendar.c.gz
$ make
$ ./calendar
(the week starts on 'Sun')
$ env | grep -e LANG -e LC
LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_IE:en_US:en_GB:en
$ unset LANGUAGE
$ ./calendar
(the week starts on 'Sun')
$ LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./calendar
(the week starts on 'dim'!)
$ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 ./calendar
(the week starts on 'Mo')

Something sounds really broken here, in France as well as in Ireland (see
e.g. http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=2006&country=32),
the week should start on Monday.

My locales are fine, thank you:
$ /usr/sbin/validlocale en_IE.UTF-8
locale 'en_IE.UTF-8' valid and available
$ /usr/sbin/validlocale fr_FR.UTF-8
locale 'fr_FR.UTF-8' valid and available
$ /usr/sbin/validlocale de_DE.UTF-8
locale 'de_DE.UTF-8' valid and available

I tried the foo.c file as well, but it returns Sunday all the time (in the
respective language).

Thanks for your help, tell me if I can provide more information,
Eric

-- 
Eric de France, d'Allemagne et de Navarre