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-*
