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bug#35671: 'glibc-utf8-locales' should include C.UTF-8 locale
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Meiyo Peng |
Subject: |
bug#35671: 'glibc-utf8-locales' should include C.UTF-8 locale |
Date: |
Wed, 15 May 2019 09:35:05 +0800 |
Hi Ludovic,
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Meiyo Peng <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I was surprised last week (maybe the week before that) when I found out
>> that glibc-utf8-locales only provides locales for de_DE, el_GR, en_US,
>> fr_FR, tr_TR. And in our manual, we tell people to install
>> glibc-utf8-locales after installing Guix on a foreign distro in order to
>> solve locale problems. The name "glibc-utf8-locales" indicates it
>> provides ALL UTF-8 locales while in fact it does not. This caused me a
>> trouble because I have to set the locale of Emacs to zh_CN.UTF-8 in
>> order to enable the ibus input method in Emacs. (This is a known
>> problem of Emacs. Locale has to be set to one of CJK locale in order to
>> enable external input methods.) Since the zh_CN.UTF-8 locale is not in
>> $GUIX_LOCPATH, ibus does not work in Emacs. I ended up installing the
>> "glibc-locales" package and solved the problem.
>
> To be fair, the manual has always recommended ‘glibc-locales’, not
> ‘glibc-utf8-locales’, and the latter is explicitly described as “limited
> to a few UTF-8 locales”:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html
You are right. My mistake. But when I saw the text:
#+begin_quote
Note that the glibc-locales package contains data for all the locales
supported by the GNU libc and weighs in at around 110 MiB.
Alternatively, the glibc-utf8-locales is smaller but limited to a
few UTF-8 locales.
#+end_quote
I thought the glibc-utf8-locales should satisfy my requirements since
all my locales are in UTF-8, and it's preferred if disk space is
limited. The name of glibc-utf8-locales is misleading. In fact, the
"few" UTF-8 locales it provides are too few. We'd better modify the
text a little bit if we are going to reach a broader user base.
> The hint in (guix ui) is less clear, though.
>
>> I think it would be better to simply tell people to install the
>> "glibc-locales" package. There may be a case where different
>> applications are set to different locales. For example, my system is
>> set to the en_US.UTF-8 locale but my Emacs is set to the zh_CN.UTF-8
>> locale. So $LC_* only refers to en_US.UTF-8 if guix tries to detect the
>> locale. If ‘guix package --install-locales’ only install what $LANG or
>> $LC_* refers to, zh_CN.UTF-8 won't be installed for me.
>
> That command could take a parameter, of course.
That makes sense.
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