Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6.ds1-9 Severity: normal On this machine, there's a locale called "français", but in a UTF-8 environment, "locale -a" doesn't output the non-ASCII character in UTF-8:
vin:~> locale charmap UTF-8 vin:~> locale -a | grep fran | od -Ax -txC -v 000000 66 72 61 6e e7 61 69 73 0a 000009 instead of: vin:~> echo "français" | od -Ax -txC -v 000000 66 72 61 6e c3 a7 61 69 73 0a 00000a -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686-bigmem Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages libc6 depends on: ii tzdata 2006p-1 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time libc6 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information