l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> Commit 5335c56 adds an ‘install-locale’ phase to gnu-build-system and >>> the next one adds glibc-utf8-locale to the implicit inputs. >>> >>> During bootstrap, locales aren’t available so we’re still running on the >>> C locale, which is fine in practice because we only get to deal with >>> ASCII file names at that point and do not need UTF-8 for tests or >>> anything. >>> >>> Commit 9cca706 adjust patch-and-repack to use UTF-8 as well when >>> possible–i.e., not during bootstrap. >> >> Thanks! >> >> However, there's a missing piece: I think we should set LANG to the >> chosen locale, otherwise the top-level guile builder will be the only >> process that uses UTF-8. What do you think? > > Yes, why not. It’s not strictly necessary but it’s probably a good > idea. Like this?
I went ahead with this change (to avoid an additional rebuild), but comments are welcome of course. Besides, commit e8c9f04 is interesting: ‘substitute*’ will now break non-UTF-8 files by defaults (replacing invalid UTF-8 sequences with question marks in the output.) I don’t think this is a big issue, but we’ll see in practice if it is. Ludo’.
