From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: bug#33678: Locale problems Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:56:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87va43sk4n.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <20181208223551.2ad9c226@scratchpost.org> <20181208233509.79aaf59d@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gVlWz-0005Xm-Ge for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2018 17:57:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gVlWw-0006Z4-Av for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2018 17:57:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:34624) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gVlWw-0006Z0-6c for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2018 17:57:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gVlWv-0007bJ-Uk for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2018 17:57:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20181208233509.79aaf59d@scratchpost.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Danny Milosavljevic , 33678@debbugs.gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Danny Milosavljevic writes: > (Aha, updating just xterm fixes the problem). > > When locales don't work, I can't enter umlauts at all - they get replaced by a > "generic" character that isn't an umlaut, even when checked using a hexdump > tool. > > So not only couldn't I see the umlauts, I couldn't type them blindly either. Does adding locales for both the new and old libc to your system help? E.g.: (operating-system [...] (locale-libcs (list glibc-2.27 (canonical-package glibc)))) ? --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAlwMTBkACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPqWhAgA0IyCuBwkcMKyRecR9in/89SPiPmsX2mjdCo9kI9ZVBxL1KLv6Bb6AtzT AJQEYK7cZsurSLLYMckVyTuzC29N1d+e8rujwdW72+rnryNM6me9/V/M4Qt9E4W0 QSiEeuUi0VASyyIF+nOngFglBOscfER2CfBExufkiqkpUSbzgjXGZDzuhsDTMXfE avd0H8Ph9PTKqyL0CMqvvA+wSFNlUPkNM/09V4p8ydSm1CnL2oaaIKn7Fp6elgEX Ghc/8rwOfDN3lLPoM0g6mYCuNhDx/jEpmj2bkhKZJf+wo+uclll3rDIvw39qLbv9 PEwJbYbrmWSCTo6xJIDKQhLSLqpWuA== =Yo/a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--