Public bug reported: ${time %A}, in Spanish locale should return "Sábado", with the a as in á , however it is rendered as something like S¡bado, which happens when wrong utf-8 encoding is read as iso-8859-1 or similar.
This happened in openbox in Ubuntu 12.04. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: conky 1.8.1-6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic-pae 3.2.24 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Aug 18 13:10:17 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=es_PE:es TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=es_PE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: conky UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: conky (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1038488 Title: improper encoding in the output of $time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/conky/+bug/1038488/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs