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Problem with non ASCII chars in Libreoffice and zsh on foreign distro

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Problem with non ASCII chars in Libreoffice and zsh on foreign distro
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:49:44 +0200

Hi,

Guix is an amazing piece of software and I want to learn more about it.

Before installing GuixSD on my machine, I started playing with Guix on 
my Xubuntu 18.04 system.

Starting to replace apt installed software with guix ones.

It works pretty well but I'm having some trouble with non ASCII 
characters in filenames.

* I can't open files with non ASCII characters in LibreOffice

* I can't type non ASCII characters in zsh (though I can with guix 
installed bash)

I thought the problem was related to : https://issues.guix.info/issue/36074

But after applying the patch and restart systemd, I still got my issues.

Thanks for your help

Message #8 received at 36180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me>
Cc: 36180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36180: Problem with non ASCII chars in Libreoffice and zsh on
 foreign distro
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:02:08 +0200

Hello Andréas,

Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me> skribis:

> It works pretty well but I'm having some trouble with non ASCII
> characters in filenames.
>
> * I can't open files with non ASCII characters in LibreOffice
>
> * I can't type non ASCII characters in zsh (though I can with guix
> installed bash)

Did you install ‘glibc-locales’ and set ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ as explained in:

  https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Locales

?

You must make sure ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ is defined in the environment of
LibreOffice and zsh.

Do you see any locale-related warnings?

Thanks for reporting the issue!

Ludo’.

Message #11 received at 36180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 36180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36180: Problem with non ASCII chars in Libreoffice and zsh on
 foreign distro
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:11:27 +0200

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Hello Ludo,

Thanks for your reply !

> Did you install ‘glibc-locales’ and set ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ as explained in:
>
>    https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Locales
>
> ?
Yes
> You must make sure ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ is defined in the environment of
> LibreOffice and zsh.

Good catch for Libreoffice, I didn't thought about that since I use to 
open LO files with Thunar (it raise an other question : how to set 
GUIX_LOCPATH for applications that I do not from command line, but it's 
not related to guix).

But for zsh, `GUIX_LOCPATH` was already setted.

Each time I type a non ASCII letter, eg `é` it display : 
`<ffffffff><ffffffff>`

> Do you see any locale-related warnings?
I had those warnings but fix them with instructions given in 
https://issues.guix.info/issue/36074
> Thanks for reporting the issue!

And thank for taking tare of it ! :D

Andréas

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Message #14 received at 36180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me>
To: 36180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36180: Problem with non ASCII chars in Libreoffice and zsh on
 foreign distro
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:35:00 +0200

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> Good catch for Libreoffice, I didn't thought about that since I use to 
> open LO files with Thunar (it raise an other question : how to set 
> GUIX_LOCPATH for applications that I do not from command line, but 
> it's not related to guix).
>
I just have to add GUIX_LOCPATH to ~/.xsessionrc and it works for 
LibreOffice AND zsh !!

Don't understand why setting it in ~/.zshrc wasn't enough ??

Anyway, thanks for pointing me to the right direction !

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Message #17 received at 36180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me>
Cc: 36180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36180: Problem with non ASCII chars in Libreoffice and zsh on
 foreign distro
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:16:17 +0200

Hello,

Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me> skribis:

>> You must make sure ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ is defined in the environment of
>> LibreOffice and zsh.
>
> Good catch for Libreoffice, I didn't thought about that since I use to
> open LO files with Thunar (it raise an other question : how to set
> GUIX_LOCPATH for applications that I do not from command line, but
> it's not related to guix).

Awesome.

> But for zsh, `GUIX_LOCPATH` was already setted.
>
> Each time I type a non ASCII letter, eg `é` it display :
> `<ffffffff><ffffffff>`

Hmm that I don’t know.  It could have to do with your terminal emulator, too.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #22 received at 36180-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
To: Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me>
Cc: 36180-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36180: Problem with non ASCII chars in Libreoffice and zsh
 on foreign distro
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:24:35 +0200

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 02:35:00PM +0200, Andréas Livet wrote:
> I just have to add GUIX_LOCPATH to ~/.xsessionrc and it works for LibreOffice
> AND zsh !!

Closing the bug then.

Andreas

Message #25 received at 36180-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me>
Cc: 36180-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36180: Problem with non ASCII chars in Libreoffice and zsh on
 foreign distro
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:18:53 +0200

Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me> skribis:

>> Good catch for Libreoffice, I didn't thought about that since I use
>> to open LO files with Thunar (it raise an other question : how to
>> set GUIX_LOCPATH for applications that I do not from command line,
>> but it's not related to guix).
>>
> I just have to add GUIX_LOCPATH to ~/.xsessionrc and it works for
> LibreOffice AND zsh !!
>
> Don't understand why setting it in ~/.zshrc wasn't enough ??

Ah that’s because it needs to be set in the environment of zsh when you
start it.  Great that you found out!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #28 received at 36180-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 36180-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36180: Problem with non ASCII chars in Libreoffice and zsh on
 foreign distro
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:58:32 +0200

Thanks for your help, GUIX is really awesome and I enjoy using it !

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