From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Lack of locales in build environment Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:13:34 +0100 Message-ID: <874mqt1ncx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87386d3d0p.fsf@gnu.org> <20150210180225.GA4178@intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42755) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLI7s-0007pv-CA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:13:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLI7o-0002eH-V4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:13:44 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37134) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLI7o-0002eD-S7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:13:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20150210180225.GA4178@intra> (John Darrington's message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:02:26 +0100") 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.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Darrington Cc: Guix-devel , Federico Beffa John Darrington skribis: > The C locale is the canonical locale. UTF-8 is not the only characater en= coding in > the world. English is not the only language in the world, and US English= is not > the only dialect of English. You=E2=80=99re right, of course. For the packages discussed, what matters = above all is to provide their build environment with a UTF-8 locale, and en_US seems like the least disruptive one from a technical viewpoint. But of course, that does not have any impact on what locales people may want to use in their own environment. Ludo=E2=80=99.