From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Frequent locales problems for new users
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200317202843.GA18844@jasmine.lan> (raw)
Warning! Locales! New users seem to have trouble with Guix locales every
day.
I think we can improve the situation.
First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention
it in the manual section Application Setup. I've seen users think they
had to install it in order to get UTF-8 support. Everyone should be
using glibc-locales. Eventually we can rename it to
'glibc-locales-for-tests', and hide the package too.
Second, we need to make sure that guix-install.sh is setting up
GUIX_LOCPATH correctly. I see that the binary tarball's store includes
glibc-utf8-locales, so it should be possible for things to "just work",
ignoring that it's the wrong locales package. Does anyone know any
particular issues with the installer that would cause trouble?
next reply other threads:[~2020-03-17 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-17 20:28 Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-03-18 7:47 ` Frequent locales problems for new users Efraim Flashner
2020-03-18 8:12 ` Thorsten Wilms
2020-03-18 16:22 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-03-18 15:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-18 18:36 ` Leo Famulari
2020-03-21 15:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-21 18:02 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-03-21 19:43 ` Leo Famulari
2020-03-21 20:14 ` Leo Famulari
2020-03-26 12:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-01 18:02 ` Vagrant Cascadian
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