From ef4913316ffc896b5c17882b58730f2129a8fe38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Genovy <29107334+jefgen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 12:15:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ICU-21271 Fix valgrind failure in dtptngen.cpp

---
 icu4c/source/i18n/dtptngen.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/icu4c/source/i18n/dtptngen.cpp b/icu4c/source/i18n/dtptngen.cpp
index 02be4f054b8..32d3fc4db8d 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/i18n/dtptngen.cpp
+++ b/icu4c/source/i18n/dtptngen.cpp
@@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ DateTimePatternGenerator::getCalendarTypeToUse(const Locale& locale, CharString&
             err = localStatus;
             return;
         }
-        if (calendarTypeLen < ULOC_KEYWORDS_CAPACITY) {
+        if (calendarTypeLen > 0 && calendarTypeLen < ULOC_KEYWORDS_CAPACITY) {
             destination.clear().append(calendarType, -1, err);
             if (U_FAILURE(err)) { return; }
         }