[debbugs-tracker] bug#36076: closed ('glibc-locales' lacks symlinks for locale names with normalized codeset)

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and subject line Re: bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales 
is needed by default on foreign distros
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #36076,
regarding 'glibc-locales' lacks symlinks for locale names with normalized 
codeset
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> Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros
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> Mon, 3 Jun 2019 14:39:55 -0400 (EDT)
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> Hi Guix,
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> While setting up Guix on a foreign distribution (CentOS 7), I elected to 
> use the full glibc-locales while following section 2.6.1 of the manual for 
> application setup. I installed the glibc-locales package in both my user's 
> profile and root's so that the locales would be available to guix-daemon.
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> However, I was surprised that even though I had the full set of locales 
> available guix-daemon couldn't find the locale it was looking for. This is 
> because the default systemd unit for guix-daemon configures it to use the 
> en_US.utf8 locale which is provided by glibc-utf8-locales (en_US.UTF-8 is 
> in glibc-locales).
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> I think it would be good to clarify in the manual which locale package is 
> needed when using the default daemon configuration on systemd foreign 
> distros.
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> I also talked about my experience on help-guix: 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-06/msg00024.html
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> Best,
> Jack
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> Hi,
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> Jack Hill <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
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> >> Let me know what you think.
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> > I follow all of the explanation, so it makes sense to me. Previously,
> > I didn't know about normalized names, but now I do, so thanks!
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> > Once normalized locales are present in glibc-locales, I don't think
> > any change will be needed in the manual.
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> Fixed in 0e6cee21a48294b81a5e57e00602728fe7f7075f, thanks!
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> Ludo’.
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