Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Commit 5335c56 adds an ‘install-locale’ phase to gnu-build-system and
>> the next one adds glibc-utf8-locale to the implicit inputs.
>>
>> During bootstrap, locales aren’t available so we’re still running on the
>> C locale, which is fine in practice because we only get to deal with
>> ASCII file names at that point and do not need UTF-8 for tests or
>> anything.
>>
>> Commit 9cca706 adjust patch-and-repack to use UTF-8 as well when
>> possible–i.e., not during bootstrap.
>
> Thanks!
>
> However, there's a missing piece: I think we should set LANG to the
> chosen locale, otherwise the top-level guile builder will be the only
> process that uses UTF-8.  What do you think?

Yes, why not.  It’s not strictly necessary but it’s probably a good
idea.  Like this?