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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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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To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
Cc: 36076@debbugs.gnu.org

Hi Giovanni,

Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> 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=E2=80=99oh!

> 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 =E2=80=9Cen_US.uTF--8=E2=80=9D, =
it eventually
tries to read data for =E2=80=9Cen_US.utf8=E2=80=9D.)  I wonder why the
=E2=80=98install-locales=E2=80=99 rule doesn=E2=80=99t to it.

The =E2=80=9Cnormalized codeset=E2=80=9D is described in the libc manual (i=
nfo "(libc)
Using gettextized software") and (info "(libc) Locale Names").

Anyway, I=E2=80=99ve posted patches to refactor things a bit and to create =
those
symlinks in =E2=80=98glibc-locales=E2=80=99:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36116

Let me know what you think.

Thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.