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

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> 'glibc-utf8-locales' should include C.UTF-8 locale
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> Fri, 10 May 2019 18:31:55 +0200
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> Hello,
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> 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.
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> Thus, I think ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ should provide that locale.
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> Ludo’.
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> Re: bug#35671: guix-daemon cannot find UTF-8 locale out-of-the-box on foreign distros
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> Hello,
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> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
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> > Hi!
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> > Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
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> >> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> skribis:
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> >>> 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.
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> >> It turns out that the “C.UTF-8” locale doesn’t exist upstream in glibc:
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> >>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902094
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> >> 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.
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> > Done in 489d6c0dc03f1d95a3fefa6301f36cac9b50b2c3.
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> > 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!
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> Closing, then :-).
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> Maxim
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