Re: Locale error: Falling back to C locale

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Some applications complain about the locale:
>
>       > stow .
>       perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>       perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>               LANGUAGE = (unset),
>               LC_ALL = (unset),
>               LANG = "en_US.utf8"
>           are supported and installed on your system.
>       perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>
>       > emacs
>       (process:7796): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
>               Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>
> Both emacs and stow still work properly but I wonder where this comes
> from.  Did I miss something during the install?

On GuixSD this should work fine out of the box.  On other distros,
please take a look at
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Locales>.

HTH!

Ludo’.