Subject: Re: bug#46691: tmux
From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
To: Pink Gorilla <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:38:58 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 11:46, Pink Gorilla <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Trying to run tmux in a guix environment --container
> brings me this error message:
>
> tmux: need UTF-8 locale (LC_CTYPE) but have ANSI_X3.4-1968

It is not a bug and you can run

  guix environment --container --ad-hoc glibc-utf8-locales tmux …

and then:

  export GUIX_LOCPATH=$GUIX_ENVIRONMENT/lib/locale

or use the option --preserve.

Closing.

All the best,
simon