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Frequent locales problems for new users
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Frequent locales problems for new users |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:43 -0400 |
Warning! Locales! New users seem to have trouble with Guix locales every
day.
I think we can improve the situation.
First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention
it in the manual section Application Setup. I've seen users think they
had to install it in order to get UTF-8 support. Everyone should be
using glibc-locales. Eventually we can rename it to
'glibc-locales-for-tests', and hide the package too.
Second, we need to make sure that guix-install.sh is setting up
GUIX_LOCPATH correctly. I see that the binary tarball's store includes
glibc-utf8-locales, so it should be possible for things to "just work",
ignoring that it's the wrong locales package. Does anyone know any
particular issues with the installer that would cause trouble?
- Frequent locales problems for new users,
Leo Famulari <=
- Re: Frequent locales problems for new users, Efraim Flashner, 2020/03/18
- Re: Frequent locales problems for new users, Thorsten Wilms, 2020/03/18
- Re: Frequent locales problems for new users, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/03/18
- Re: Frequent locales problems for new users, Leo Famulari, 2020/03/18
- Re: Frequent locales problems for new users, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/03/21
- Re: Frequent locales problems for new users, Gábor Boskovits, 2020/03/21
- Re: Frequent locales problems for new users, Leo Famulari, 2020/03/21
- Re: Frequent locales problems for new users, Leo Famulari, 2020/03/21
- Re: Frequent locales problems for new users, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/03/26