From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Locale of build environments
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:20:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw4iq3uz.fsf_-_@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9urt50j.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 12 Feb 2015 12:26:52 -0500")
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?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-12 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-10 20:14 CA certificates Andreas Enge
2015-02-12 16:44 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-12 17:26 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-12 19:48 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-12 20:20 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-02-12 20:28 ` Locale of build environments Andreas Enge
2015-02-15 0:12 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-26 23:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-26 23:45 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-27 10:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-27 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-01 16:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-13 7:28 ` CA certificates Mark H Weaver
2015-02-13 10:23 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-12 20:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
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