Re: Guix locales on native distro's

[Pjotr Prins]

I have a laptop which is not showing this problem. The difference is
that the tools are linked against glibc 2.22 and 2.23. But, more
likely, it could be X. On the laptop I am using Guix's X.

Does this make sense? 

I'll have to check what video is supported on the Debian X computer.
I'll try a swap. 

Pj.

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 11:38:09AM +0000, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> This used to work:
> 
>   https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/INSTALL.org#set-locale
> 
> But lately my locales have been giving me grief and I
> want to crack it once and for all. I am running Guix tools on a
> non-Guix distro.
> 
> First, as per instructions of 
> 
>   
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#locales_002dand_002dlocpath,
>  
> 
> I have installed glibc-utf8-locales which set them for glibc-2.25 and set
> 
>   export GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale
> 
>   ls $GUIX_LOCPATH/2.25/
> 
>      en_US.UTF-8
>      (etc)
> 
> When I run  
> 
>    ~/.guix-profile/bin/locale -a
>      C
>      POSIX
> 
> Which looks limited, but is probably correct.
> 
> I am running locale, bash, xterm etc. as Guix tools all linked to
> glibc-2.25. I am *not* getting the infamous locale errors. After
> setting
> 
>   export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
>  
> and
> 
>   locale
>     LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>     LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> All should be well. But when I read or write an E-mail using mutt or
> vim (both linked correctly) I don't get to see UTF8. I don't get
> non-ASCII output (Ludo's surname, for example).
> 
> Oh yes, I am running uxterm and bash from Guix with the correct glibc. All
> tools are GUIX based except for X itself. E.g.
> 
>   ldd `which xterm`
>     libc.so.6 => 
> /gnu/store/ybpgv1v7606xw7mafda66w10hiynpiw2-glibc-2.25/lib/libc.so.6 
> (0x00007fad9302f000)
>     (etc)
> 
> Relevant environment settings:
> 
>   GUIX_LOCPATH=/home/wrk/.guix-profile/lib/locale
>   
> PATH=/home/wrk/izip/git/opensource/scripts:/home/wrk/.guix-profile/bin:/home/wrk/.guix-profile/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin
>   SHELL=/home/wrk/.guix-profile/bin/bash
>   TERM=xterm
>   TERMINAL=guixterm
>   XTERM=xterm
>   XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8
>   XTERM_SHELL=/bin/bash
>   XTERM_VERSION='XTerm(322)'
> 
> where /bin/bash actually points to a Guix bash.
> 
> What is it I am missing? 
> 
> Pj.
> 

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