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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: 50774-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Dhruvin Gandhi <contact@dhruvin.dev>
Subject: bug#50774: guix-install.sh outputs invalid utf-8 characters
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:37:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1wy8n9o.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b89a78d39c820a69924aaf80ebc573c3d5e2c73.camel@telenet.be> (Maxime Devos's message of "Fri, 24 Sep 2021 15:55:08 +0200")

Hi,

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:

> Dhruvin Gandhi schreef op vr 24-09-2021 om 13:26 [+0000]:
>> [...]
>> > This seems like a locale issue:
>> > 
>> > [...]
>> > Did you set LC_ALL to an UTF-8 locale before running guix-install.sh?
>> 
>> No
>> 
>> > If not, the default ANSI_X3.4-1968 encoding is used, which doesn't support the letter è.
>> 
>> I think this must be it.
>> 
>> Is defining LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 necessary before using the installer? If yes, should we document
>> it or maybe add it to the installer itself?
>
> I don't think it is.  Other locales such as LC_ALL=nl_NL.UTF-8 should work too I think,
> and an UTF-8 locale isn't required AFAIK, though an UTF-8 locale appears to be required to
> get UTF-8 output from guix-install.

Closing, as a UTF-8 locale shouldn't be a requirement for using
install.sh.

Thanks for the report!

Maxim




      reply	other threads:[~2022-07-12 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-24  9:21 bug#50774: guix-install.sh outputs invalid utf-8 characters Dhruvin Gandhi via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-24 10:01 ` Maxime Devos
2021-09-24 12:21 ` Dhruvin Gandhi via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-24 12:51   ` Maxime Devos
2021-09-24 13:26   ` Dhruvin Gandhi via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-24 13:55     ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-12 13:37       ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]

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