Subject: Re: bug#52831: [installer] Locale problems with nss-certs

From: Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 23:02:45 +0100

Hello Leo,

> Then I copied the image out of the store and booted it in QEMU.
>
> But, I still had the problem during installation. Did I miss a step?

No, I just sent you a wrong version of my patch, sorry about
that. LC_ALL needs to be set as an environment variable and with a
setlocale call.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff --git a/gnu/installer/utils.scm b/gnu/installer/utils.scm
index bb97bc5560..24c16e7e12 100644
--- a/gnu/installer/utils.scm
+++ b/gnu/installer/utils.scm
@@ -97,10 +97,13 @@ (define (pause)
       ;; least give us translated messages.
       (if supported?
           (setenv "LC_ALL" locale)
-          (setenv "LANGUAGE"
-                  (string-take locale
-                               (or (string-index locale #\_)
-                                   (string-length locale)))))))
+          (begin
+            (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US.utf8")
+            (setenv "LC_ALL" "en_US.utf8")
+            (setenv "LANGUAGE"
+                    (string-take locale
+                                 (or (string-index locale #\_)
+                                     (string-length locale))))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks,

Mathieu