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guix-daemon cannot find UTF-8 locale out-of-the-box on foreign distros

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
Subject: bug#35671: closed (Re: bug#35671: guix-daemon cannot find UTF-8
 locale out-of-the-box on foreign distros)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 17:56:01 +0000

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#35671: guix-daemon cannot find UTF-8 locale out-of-the-box on foreign distros

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 35671-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35671: guix-daemon cannot find UTF-8 locale out-of-the-box
 on foreign distros
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:55:11 -0500

Hello,

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

> Hi!
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr> skribis:
>>
>>> I noticed that on Debian 9, ‘guix-daemon.service’ (systemd) runs under
>>> the C.UTF-8 locale by default, even if the machine is otherwise
>>> configured with another locale.  Consequently, ‘guix substitute’ keeps
>>> complaining about locales and all that, which is terrible.
>>
>> It turns out that the “C.UTF-8” locale doesn’t exist upstream in glibc:
>>
>>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902094
>>
>> But anyway, I think we should just set “LC_ALL=en_US.utf8” in the
>> .service file: that’s what we do on Guix System, and the choice of a
>> locale doesn’t matter since ‘guix substitute’ honors the client’s
>> locale.
>
> Done in 489d6c0dc03f1d95a3fefa6301f36cac9b50b2c3.
>
> I got the syntax from
> <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html>
> but I wouldn’t mind if someone would double-check!

Closing, then :-).

Maxim

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
To: Bug Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 'glibc-utf8-locales' should include C.UTF-8 locale
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 18:31:55 +0200

Hello,

I noticed that on Debian 9, ‘guix-daemon.service’ (systemd) runs under
the C.UTF-8 locale by default, even if the machine is otherwise
configured with another locale.  Consequently, ‘guix substitute’ keeps
complaining about locales and all that, which is terrible.

Thus, I think ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ should provide that locale.

Ludo’.

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