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From: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Frequent locales problems for new users
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:12:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200318091248.c489e70495a0e5c21f1e9694@freenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200317202843.GA18844@jasmine.lan>

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:43 -0400
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> 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.

I mean to recall that I read in the docs and/or in an example, that
glibc-utf8-locales is smaller than glibc-locales, but still sufficient
for many cases. Is that wrong?


-- 
Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-18  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-17 20:28 Frequent locales problems for new users Leo Famulari
2020-03-18  7:47 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-03-18  8:12 ` Thorsten Wilms [this message]
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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