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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 (un=
til
=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-loca=
le=E2=80=99
that would only include =E2=80=98en_US.UTF-8=E2=80=99 (or a few more, but w=
hich one?)
and add it to the implicit inputs of =E2=80=98gnu-build-system=E2=80=99.

WDYT?

Ludo=E2=80=99.