When using xclock in digital mode, specifying some strftime format, it's always using english. See here for a patch : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=259423
Have you tried Xorg CVS head since I putback this fix which I think also fixes this? (It went in post-6.8.0 and hasn't been pulled into 6.8.1 or 6.8.2 so is only in CVS head right now.) 2004-10-30 Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@sun.com> * xc/programs/xclock/Imakefile,Clock.c,ClockP.h,xclock.c: Internationalize digital output (Sun bug id #4119396 - fix by Steve Swales), add -bgpixmap option to set XPM file as background (originally from STSF project version of xclock by Alan Coopersmith) It includes a setlocale(LC_ALL,"") as well as changes to handle other character sets.
Sorry, I didn't try CVS. I'm with 6.8.2 so as you say, it seems this patch was forgotten :-( I'll wai for next release and "reopen" the bug if the patch is still not included ;-) Thanks.
Marking as fixed, since the change in HEAD should cover it.
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