On Tue, Nov 08 2011, Uli Schlachter wrote:

> cal uses shell escape sequences to highlight the current date. Those only work
> in the shell. So the "real" fix would be to figure out how to match those 
> shell
> escapes and replace them with pango markup. And no, don't ask me about 
> details,
> I don't know.

Actually it's more likely a bug in cal. It should not try to output
terminal escape sequences if isatty() returns 0.

But:
$ cal | cat

Does not highlight today here, so maybe your cal is buggy?

-- 
Julien Danjou

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