Please consider allowing nis 3.17-17 into testing. It has been in unstable for over 10 days and works around an important bug which prevents the display of records with multi-byte characters in UTF8 locales.
nis (3.17-17) unstable; urgency=low * Force locale for ypcat to C in order to work around errors from fprintf() with multi-byte characters (closes: #487104). -- Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:24:44 +0100 The code change introduced for this is: --- nis-3.17.orig/yp-tools-2.9/src/ypcat.c +++ nis-3.17/yp-tools-2.9/src/ypcat.c @@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ char *domainname = NULL; char *hostname = NULL; - setlocale (LC_MESSAGES, ""); - setlocale (LC_CTYPE, ""); + setlocale (LC_MESSAGES, "C"); + setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "C"); bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); textdomain (PACKAGE); -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]