On 2022-01-31, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:40:27AM +0100, adriano wrote:
>> Running Guix the package manager on Ubuntu 21.10 for the first time
>> after some years
>> 
>> I installed glibc-locales according the the indications in
>> "Applications Setup" in the manual
>> 
>> BUT
>> 
>> runnig Emacs in the terminal and then quitting it, I get
>> 
>> ~$ emacs
>> 
>> (process:55779): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:13:44.529: Locale not supported by
>> C library.
>> 	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>> Gtk-Message: 08:13:44.641: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
>> Gtk-Message: 08:13:44.642: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
>> 
>> 
>> We'll get to the canberra thing later
>> 
>> As for the C locale, what's wrong with that ?

> 'C' isn't actually a locale in glibc but is something added by Debian.

'C' is definitely a default locale in glibc, but 'C.UTF-8' is added by
various distros. Ubuntu might only support UTF-8 locales...

> You'll want to try one of the other locales while running programs from
> Guix. You can set it with 'LOCALE=EN_US.UTF-8 emacs' and it'll only take
> effect for that command.

But yeah, you want a UTF-8 locale, at least; there is not "generic"
upstream UTF-8 locale, and guix just uses the upstream locales from
glibc.


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