From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: Lack of locales in build environment
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:13:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mqt1ncx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150210180225.GA4178@intra> (John Darrington's message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:02:26 +0100")
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
> The C locale is the canonical locale. UTF-8 is not the only characater encoding in
> the world. English is not the only language in the world, and US English is not
> the only dialect of English.
You’re 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’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-10 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-10 16:38 core-updates merged! Federico Beffa
2015-02-10 17:13 ` Lack of locales in build environment Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-10 17:36 ` Federico Beffa
2015-02-10 18:02 ` John Darrington
2015-02-10 21:13 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-02-10 21:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-10 18:46 ` core-updates merged! Andreas Enge
2015-02-10 18:50 ` John Darrington
2015-02-10 19:38 ` Federico Beffa
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2015-02-10 19:54 Lack of locales in build environment Federico Beffa
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