Correction: It only segfaults for me if I combine LC_ALL="??_??.UTF-8" with LANGUAGE=sv.
$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=sv dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1 count=2 2+0 records in 2+0 records out Segmentation fault $ LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=sv dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1 count=2 2+0 records in 2+0 records out 2 bytes (2 B) copied, 2.3e-05 seconds, 87.0 kB/s $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1 count=2 2+0 records in 2+0 records out 2 bytes (2 B) copied, 2.6e-05 seconds, 76.9 kB/s Copying a single byte also works: $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=sv dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1 byte (1 B) kopierad, 2.6e-05 sekunder, 38.5 kB/s -- dd segfaults in some locales https://launchpad.net/bugs/73571 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs