Hi!
I am not sure, but it is probbly wrong, that user started sz logs in
/var/log/messages using user defined locale language
I have installed locale, which is not part of Debian. It is Bugarian
locale. Here is what I see in /var/log/messages


Feb 12 20:44:46 antoinette -- MARK --
Feb 12 21:04:46 antoinette -- MARK --
Ôåâ 12 21:17:31 antoinette sz[2805]: [stoev] kbdbul_kbd.zip/ZMODEM: getnak
failed
Ôåâ 12 21:17:31 antoinette sz[2805]: [stoev] ZMODEM/kbdbul_kbd.zip: error
occured
Ôåâ 12 21:19:15 antoinette sz[2829]: [stoev] kbdbul_kbd.zip/ZMODEM: got
ZSKIP
Ôåâ 12 21:19:15 antoinette sz[2829]: [stoev] kbdbul_kbd.zip/ZMODEM: 301
Bytes, 47 BPS
Feb 12 21:44:45 antoinette -- MARK --
Feb 12 22:04:45 antoinette -- MARK --
Feb 12 22:24:45 antoinette -- MARK --

Az you see, _only_ messages generated by sz have used my locale (the name
of the month).  I think they should not differ from the rest of the log.

Is this a bug?

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lrzsz, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 57884@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Martin A. Godisch <godisch@debian.org> (supplier of updated lrzsz package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:02:51 +0200
Source: lrzsz
Architecture: source
Version: 0.12.21rc-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin A. Godisch <godisch@debian.org>
Changed-By: Martin A. Godisch <godisch@debian.org>
Closes: 57884 156249 1105467
Changes:
 lrzsz (0.12.21rc-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Fix FTBFS with "make --shuffle=reverse". The upstream src/Makefile.am
     install-exec-local hook hard-links the installed binaries but does not
     depend on install-binPROGRAMS, so under shuffled prerequisite order it ran
     before the binaries were installed and ln aborted. Add new patch
     1105467_shuffle_install_order.diff declaring the dependency explicitly,
     closes: #1105467.
   * Keep syslog timestamps locale-independent. setlocale(LC_ALL, "") in lrz/lsz
     also set LC_TIME, which the C library's syslog() used for the message
     timestamp, so log lines from sz/rz showed a translated month name while the
     rest of the log stayed English. Add new patch
     57884_syslog_locale_timestamp.diff resetting LC_TIME to "C", closes: #57884.
   * Fix the XMODEM "Blocks received" counter for files larger than 255 blocks.
     wcrx() displayed the raw one-byte block number, which wraps at 255, so the
     on-screen count restarted at 0 (showing "055", "155", ... due to the
     carriage-return redraw) instead of continuing 256, 257, ... Add new patch
     156249_xmodem_block_counter.diff reporting the running sector total instead,
     closes: #156249.
   * Silence the only remaining C compiler warning: siginterrupt() is deprecated
     (-Wdeprecated-declarations). Add new patch fix_siginterrupt_deprecation.diff
     installing the SIGALRM handlers via sigaction() with sa_flags = 0 instead,
     preserving the "interrupt blocking syscalls on timeout" behaviour.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4 (no further changes required).
   * Switch to debhelper compat level 13.
   * Add ${misc:Depends} to the binary package's Depends.
   * Update debian/watch to format version 4.
   * Refresh the debian/copyright header (current maintainer, upstream URL).
   * Packaging QA: add DEP-3 Description/Forwarded headers to all quilt patches;
     drop the obsolete debian/source/include-binaries (its entries no longer
     exist in the tree) and the stray, non-series patch
     206499_ymodemg.diff.unchecked.
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