[debbugs-tracker] bug#22572: closed (Handling of system 'locale' field needs improvement)

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> Handling of system 'locale' field needs improvement
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> Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:22:14 -0500
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> Multiple users on #guix have been bitten by the following error message:
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>   guix system: error: system locale lacks a definition
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> and even several seasoned developers on #guix didn't know the answer.
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> At minimum, the error message should be improved to point to the
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> Better yet, the value of the 'locale' field should be automatically
> added to the default value of 'locale-definitions' if it's not already
> there.  The overwhelming majority of users set their 'locale' and have
> no interest in 'locale-definitions'.
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>     Regards,
>       Mark
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> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
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> > Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
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> >> Better yet, the value of the 'locale' field should be automatically
> >> added to the default value of 'locale-definitions' if it's not already
> >> there.  The overwhelming majority of users set their 'locale' and have
> >> no interest in 'locale-definitions'.
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> > What about this?  This is not ideal in that it guesses the charset based
> > on the locale name, which won’t always work (the locale name is supposed
> > to use the normalized name, like “utf8”, whereas the real name is, say,
> > “UTF-8”), but it should cover 90% of the use cases.
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> I pushed an improved version of the patch as f5582b2.
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> Ludo’.
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