Re: Guix locales on native distro's

[Pjotr Prins]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:36:46AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> followed by firing up a uxterm which I have as an alias
> 
>     alias guixterm='/home/wrk/.guix-profile/bin/uxterm -vb -fg black -bg 
> lightyellow -fn *-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*'
> 
>     guixterm &
> 
> That gives me the full locale support with, for example, 
> 
>     export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> I realize now that the problem I had before was variations on the
> startup procedure. As I don't always have the standard GUIX profile by
> default (I have different profiles for different needs) I need to
> start that up first. Then run a uxterm with that background and
> locales work fine on Debian too.

uxterm is actually a shell script, better to alias as

  alias guixterm=$HOME/.guix-profile/bin/xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8 
-vb -fg black -bg lightyellow -fn *-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*