bug#35671: guix-daemon cannot find UTF-8 locale out-of-the-box on foreign distros

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> skribis:
>>
>>> I noticed that on Debian 9, ‘guix-daemon.service’ (systemd) runs under
>>> the C.UTF-8 locale by default, even if the machine is otherwise
>>> configured with another locale.  Consequently, ‘guix substitute’ keeps
>>> complaining about locales and all that, which is terrible.
>>
>> It turns out that the “C.UTF-8” locale doesn’t exist upstream in glibc:
>>
>>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902094
>>
>> But anyway, I think we should just set “LC_ALL=en_US.utf8” in the
>> .service file: that’s what we do on Guix System, and the choice of a
>> locale doesn’t matter since ‘guix substitute’ honors the client’s
>> locale.
>
> Done in 489d6c0dc03f1d95a3fefa6301f36cac9b50b2c3.
>
> I got the syntax from
> <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html>
> but I wouldn’t mind if someone would double-check!

Closing, then :-).

Maxim