Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > Guile converts POSIX byte strings (e.g. file names) to strings using to > the current locale encoding, but the default locale in our build > environment is "C" which means ASCII-only. > > I would advocate using a UTF-8 locale for all builds by default.
Note that this was already the case before locales were moved out of the ‘glibc’ package. Also, the early bootstrap environment (until ‘glibc-final’ is used) doesn’t have locales. For the non-bootstrap environment, we could make a ‘glibc-utf8-locale’ that would only include ‘en_US.UTF-8’ (or a few more, but which one?) and add it to the implicit inputs of ‘gnu-build-system’. WDYT? Ludo’.
