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* Frequent locales problems for new users
@ 2020-03-17 20:28 Leo Famulari
  2020-03-18  7:47 ` Efraim Flashner
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Leo Famulari @ 2020-03-17 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Warning! Locales! New users seem to have trouble with Guix locales every
day.

I think we can improve the situation.

First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention
it in the manual section Application Setup. I've seen users think they
had to install it in order to get UTF-8 support. Everyone should be
using glibc-locales. Eventually we can rename it to
'glibc-locales-for-tests', and hide the package too.

Second, we need to make sure that guix-install.sh is setting up
GUIX_LOCPATH correctly. I see that the binary tarball's store includes
glibc-utf8-locales, so it should be possible for things to "just work",
ignoring that it's the wrong locales package. Does anyone know any
particular issues with the installer that would cause trouble?

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2020-03-17 20:28 Frequent locales problems for new users Leo Famulari
2020-03-18  7:47 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-03-18  8:12 ` Thorsten Wilms
2020-03-18 16:22   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-03-18 15:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-18 18:36   ` Leo Famulari
2020-03-21 15:37     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-21 18:02       ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-03-21 19:43       ` Leo Famulari
2020-03-21 20:14         ` Leo Famulari
2020-03-26 12:06         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-01 18:02 ` Vagrant Cascadian

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