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bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by de
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Jun 2019 17:38:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Giovanni,
Giovanni Biscuolo <address@hidden> skribis:
> You are right, I overlooked that: I removed glibc-utf8-locales from my
> user profile, I just have glibc-locales now:
>
> ~$ ls -lah /var/guix/profiles/per-user/giovanni/guix-profile/lib/locale/2.28/
> | grep en_US
> dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jan 1 1970 en_US
> dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jan 1 1970 en_US.UTF-8
D’oh!
> In fact make-glibc-locales in base.scm "just" installs all locales in
> "not normalized codeset" with:
>
> [...]
> (replace 'build
> (lambda _
> (invoke "make" "localedata/install-locales"
> "-j" (number->string (parallel-job-count)))))
We should fix it, notably because libc automatically falls back to the
normalized codeset (that is, if you choose “en_US.uTF--8”, it eventually
tries to read data for “en_US.utf8”.) I wonder why the
‘install-locales’ rule doesn’t to it.
The “normalized codeset” is described in the libc manual (info "(libc)
Using gettextized software") and (info "(libc) Locale Names").
Anyway, I’ve posted patches to refactor things a bit and to create those
symlinks in ‘glibc-locales’:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36116
Let me know what you think.
Thanks!
Ludo’.