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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#33678: Locale problems
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:35:54 +0100
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Guten Tag!  :-)

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> Can we do something against the locale problems that keep showing up
> when updating?
>
> Right now, after a half-finished update from guix master (half-finished b=
ecause
> once any package build breaks, the entire update will stop), I cannot use=
 any
> Umlauts because "xterm -u8" stops working as it should:
> $ xterm -u8
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> $
>
> Why does this keep happening?  Shouldn't the functional nature and modula=
rity
> of Guix keep using the old locales where those make sense and the new loc=
ales
> where those make sense?

Please see:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Locales.html#Locale=
-Data-Compatibility-Considerations

The solution, as described in this section, is to have both (say)
locales for glibc 2.27 and locales for glibc 2.28, which you can specify
in =E2=80=98locale-libcs=E2=80=99.

Another option is what =E2=80=98guix=E2=80=99 commands print every time you=
 run them: to
install the corresponding =E2=80=98glibc-utf8-locales=E2=80=99 package.

Now I perfectly understands that this annoys everyone of us when that
happens, and many people don=E2=80=99t seem to find the info.  So I=E2=80=
=99m open to
suggestions on how to improve this!

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.