cal don't start week at monday with french locale

[Jerikojerk]

install french localized version of edgy.

just tape calc in a shell. name of day are in french but first day is sunday.

$ cal
     mars 2007
di lu ma me je ve sa
             1 2 3
 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Same problem with Hungarian:
                               2008

       január február március
v h k sz cs p sz v h k sz cs p sz v h k sz cs p sz
       1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1
 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
                                              30 31

Also the abbreviations of the names of the days are not properly alligned with the dates.

[costales (costales)]

I live in Spain.
I prefer a English version of Ubuntu, then I install as default environment (USA Language).
The first day of week is Sunday, and in Spain the first day is Monday :(
I prefer the english in the operating system, but I prefer Monday as first day in the applet of Gnome Bar (Evolution works well).

[Erik Iohansson (erjohan-gmail)]

Use "cal -m" then it will display mondays as the first day of the week. cal doesnt use locale, so the question is wether it's a good idea to fix this or not. I mean it might break stuff?

ldd /usr/bin/cal
        linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7f5b000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e11000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7e0c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fb3000)

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

Everything works for me, as long as your display preference agrees with the locale setting. If it is reproducible, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? I am using bsdmainutils 6.1.10ubuntu3.

Here are the "first_weekday" values for the en, es, fr, and hu locales, where 1 means Sunday, and 2 means Monday :

en_AU:first_weekday 1
en_CA:first_weekday 1
en_DK:first_weekday 2
en_GB:first_weekday 1
en_HK:first_weekday 1
en_IE:first_weekday 2
en_IN:first_weekday 1
en_NZ:first_weekday 1
en_PH:first_weekday 1
en_SG:first_weekday 1
en_US:first_weekday 1
en_ZA:first_weekday 1
es_AR:first_weekday 2
es_BO:first_weekday 2
es_CL:first_weekday 2
es_CO:first_weekday 2
es_CR:first_weekday 1
es_DO:first_weekday 2
es_EC:first_weekday 2
es_ES:first_weekday 2
es_GT:first_weekday 2
es_HN:first_weekday 2
es_MX:first_weekday 2
es_NI:first_weekday 2
es_PA:first_weekday 2
es_PE:first_weekday 2
es_PR:first_weekday 2
es_PY:first_weekday 2
es_SV:first_weekday 2
es_US:first_weekday 1
es_UY:first_weekday 2
es_VE:first_weekday 2
fr_BE:first_weekday 1
fr_CA:first_weekday 1
fr_CH:first_weekday 1
fr_FR:first_weekday 1
fr_LU:first_weekday 1
hu_HU:first_weekday 1

You can check your yourself in the /usr/share/i18n/locales directory. For example, cal outputs the following calendars :

$ LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8 cal
     mars 2009
di lu ma me je ve sa
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31

$ LC_TIME=es_ES.UTF-8 cal
     marzo 2009
lu ma mi ju vi sá do
                   1
 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

Marking as incomplete since the latest package seems to work as expected.