bug#68094: Test "terminal-string-width Japanese" has environmental dependency

bug#68094: Test "terminal-string-width Japanese" has environmental dependency

[Skyler Ferris via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

Hello,

The test "terminal-string-width Japanese" in the file 
"tests/syscalls.scm" has an environmental dependency which causes it to 
fail when I run `guix shell --pure -D guix -- make check 
TESTS=tests/syscalls.scm`. I can resolve this by instead running `guix 
shell --pure -D guix -- env LANG=en_US.utf-8 make check 
TESTS=tests/syscalls.scm`. I do not know enough about locales to know if 
it makes sense for the test to set the environment variable, to make a 
recommendation in the manual, or to do something else. For 
bootstrapping, which requires some programs not included in the package 
dependencies, the manual specifically states the additional packages 
which are required (the problem here is not an additional package, but 
seems similar).

Regards,
Skyler