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'glibc-locales' lacks symlinks for locale names with normalized codeset

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36076: closed ('glibc-locales' lacks symlinks for locale
 names with normalized codeset)
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:13:02 +0000

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From: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default
 on foreign distros
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 14:39:55 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Guix,

While setting up Guix on a foreign distribution (CentOS 7), I elected to 
use the full glibc-locales while following section 2.6.1 of the manual for 
application setup. I installed the glibc-locales package in both my user's 
profile and root's so that the locales would be available to guix-daemon.

However, I was surprised that even though I had the full set of locales 
available guix-daemon couldn't find the locale it was looking for. This is 
because the default systemd unit for guix-daemon configures it to use the 
en_US.utf8 locale which is provided by glibc-utf8-locales (en_US.UTF-8 is 
in glibc-locales).

I think it would be good to clarify in the manual which locale package is 
needed when using the default daemon configuration on systemd foreign 
distros.

I also talked about my experience on help-guix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-06/msg00024.html

Best,
Jack

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>
Cc: Giovanni Biscuolo <g <at> xelera.eu>, 36076-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is
 needed by default on foreign distros
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 23:12:01 +0200

Hi,

Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us> skribis:

> On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> Let me know what you think.
>
> I follow all of the explanation, so it makes sense to me. Previously,
> I didn't know about normalized names, but now I do, so thanks!
>
> Once normalized locales are present in glibc-locales, I don't think
> any change will be needed in the manual.

Fixed in 0e6cee21a48294b81a5e57e00602728fe7f7075f, thanks!

Ludo’.

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