GNU bug report logs - #33678
Locale problems

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>

Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 21:37:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 33678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>, 33678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33678: Locale problems
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:56:24 +0100

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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> writes:

> (Aha, updating just xterm fixes the problem).
>
> When locales don't work, I can't enter umlauts at all - they get replaced by a
> "generic" character that isn't an umlaut, even when checked using a hexdump
> tool.
>
> So not only couldn't I see the umlauts, I couldn't type them blindly either.

Does adding locales for both the new and old libc to your system help?

E.g.:

(operating-system
  [...]
  (locale-libcs (list glibc-2.27 (canonical-package glibc))))

?

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