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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Re: Locale of build environments
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:12:13 -0500
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) 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
> =E2=80=98glibc=E2=80=99 package.  Also, the early bootstrap environment (=
until
> =E2=80=98glibc-final=E2=80=99 is used) doesn=E2=80=99t have locales.
>
> For the non-bootstrap environment, we could make a =E2=80=98glibc-utf8-lo=
cale=E2=80=99
> that would only include =E2=80=98en_US.UTF-8=E2=80=99 (or a few more, but=
 which one?)
> and add it to the implicit inputs of =E2=80=98gnu-build-system=E2=80=99.
>
> WDYT?

Sounds good to me!

    Thanks,
      Mark