Re: Locales not working

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> The code of glibc states
>             ;; Installing a locale archive with all the locales is to
>             ;; expensive (~100 MiB), so we rely on users to install the
>             ;; locales they really want.
> But how do I do that? I wondered if there was an additional "locale" output
> of glibc, but there is not.
>
> $ guix package -A locale
> does not return anything useful.
>
> There is a section 6.2.6 in the manual, but it only speaks about GSD,
> not about Guix inside other systems.

Right, Mark reported it as well.

The basic idea is that it’s up to you to define $LOCPATH and have it
point to a place that contains locale data (info "(libc) Locale Names").

But I think we could provide a ‘glibc-locales’ package (110 MiB) for
those in search of a quick fix on foreign distros.

(Time passes...)

Commit aee6180c adds ‘glibc-locales’.  You can install it and do:

  export LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/share/locale

though that’s not the most efficient approach space-wise.

I would instead recommend using your host libc’s locale data, which
should be compatible; something like that (untested):

  export LOCPATH=/usr/share/locale

Last, commit d6718df of ‘core-updates’ adds a search path specification
for ‘LOCPATH’.  (Not really useful for profiles since one would need to
explicitly install glibc in their profile to get the message about
‘LOCPATH’.)

Ludo’.