diff -Nru finger-bsd-1.0/finger/finger.c finger-bsd-1.1/finger/finger.c
--- finger-bsd-1.0/finger/finger.c	2001-03-09 11:43:56.000000000 +0100
+++ finger-bsd-1.1/finger/finger.c	2002-02-20 13:47:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
   char domain[MAXHOSTNAMELEN];
   struct stat sb;
 
-  setlocale (LC_MESSAGES, "");
+  setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
   bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
   textdomain (PACKAGE);
 
diff -Nru finger-bsd-1.0/finger/util.c finger-bsd-1.1/finger/util.c
--- finger-bsd-1.0/finger/util.c	2001-03-09 15:25:04.000000000 +0100
+++ finger-bsd-1.1/finger/util.c	2002-02-22 15:01:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <paths.h>
-#include <vis.h>
 #include <err.h>
 #include "finger.h"
 #include "extern.h"
@@ -386,20 +385,25 @@
 	return(pbuf);
 }
 
-/* Like strvis(), but use malloc() to get the space and return a pointer
- * to the beginning of the converted string, not the end.
- *
- * The caller is responsible for free()'ing the returned string.
+/* Use malloc() to get the space and return a pointer
+ * to the beginning of the converted string.
  */
 char *
-vs(src)
-	char *src;
+vs(char *src)
 {
-	char *dst;
+  char *dst;
+  size_t i;
 
-	if ((dst = malloc((4 * strlen(src)) + 1)) == NULL)
-		err(1, "malloc failed");
+  if ((dst = calloc(1, strlen(src) + 1)) == NULL)
+    err(1, "malloc failed");
 
-	strvis(dst, src, VIS_SAFE|VIS_NOSLASH);
-	return(dst);
+  for (i = 0; i < strlen (src); i++)
+    {
+      if (!isprint (src[i]))
+	dst[i] = '?';
+      else
+	dst[i] = src[i];
+    }
+
+  return dst;
 }