From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Frequent locales problems for new users Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:43 -0400 Message-ID: <20200317202843.GA18844@jasmine.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jEIpV-0001pA-9g for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEIpT-0002Rf-HO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:49 -0400 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:43813) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEIpR-0002MX-Mw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (c-76-124-138-63.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [76.124.138.63]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 77A1F3060F09 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:44 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org 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?