Re: Locale of build environments

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> Guile converts POSIX byte strings (e.g. file names) to strings using to
>> the current locale encoding, but the default locale in our build
>> environment is "C" which means ASCII-only.
>>
>> I would advocate using a UTF-8 locale for all builds by default.
>
> Note that this was already the case before locales were moved out of the
> ‘glibc’ package.  Also, the early bootstrap environment (until
> ‘glibc-final’ is used) doesn’t have locales.
>
> For the non-bootstrap environment, we could make a ‘glibc-utf8-locale’
> that would only include ‘en_US.UTF-8’ (or a few more, but which one?)
> and add it to the implicit inputs of ‘gnu-build-system’.
>
> WDYT?

Sounds good to me!

    Thanks,
      Mark