Re: Guix locales on native distro's

2017-10-02 Thread Pjotr Prins
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 suppor

Re: Guix locales on native distro's

2017-09-24 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 05:47:29PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 03:35:17PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > > > The difference is > > > that the tools are linked against glibc 2.22 and 2.23 > > > > This means that you will need to have glibc-locales for all three > > versi

Re: Guix locales on native distro's

2017-08-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Pjotr, Pjotr Prins skribis: > All should be well. But when I read or write an E-mail using mutt or > vim (both linked correctly) I don't get to see UTF8. I don't get > non-ASCII output (Ludo's surname, for example). Can your xterm display UTF-8-encoded text at all? Like what does it display

Re: Guix locales on native distro's

2017-08-27 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 03:35:17PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > The difference is > > that the tools are linked against glibc 2.22 and 2.23 > > This means that you will need to have glibc-locales for all three > versions. GUIX_LOCPATH is set to “lib/locales”, which contains > versioned sub-

Re: Guix locales on native distro's

2017-08-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pjotr Prins writes: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:56:37AM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> glibc 2.22 and 2.23 from guix or from the host/foreign distro? > > Guix glibc. > >> guix has been at 2.25 for a while now, could you test if you still >> have the issues with it more up to date? > > 2.25 is

Re: Guix locales on native distro's

2017-08-27 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:56:37AM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > glibc 2.22 and 2.23 from guix or from the host/foreign distro? Guix glibc. > guix has been at 2.25 for a while now, could you test if you still > have the issues with it more up to date? 2.25 is giving the problems. Not the olde

Re: Guix locales on native distro's

2017-08-27 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 08:13:18AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > I have a laptop which is not showing this problem. The difference is > that the tools are linked against glibc 2.22 and 2.23. But, more > likely, it could be X. On the laptop I am using Guix's X. > > Does this make sense? > > I'll ha

Re: Guix locales on native distro's

2017-08-26 Thread Pjotr Prins
I have a laptop which is not showing this problem. The difference is that the tools are linked against glibc 2.22 and 2.23. But, more likely, it could be X. On the laptop I am using Guix's X. Does this make sense? I'll have to check what video is supported on the Debian X computer. I'll try a sw

Guix locales on native distro's

2017-08-26 Thread Pjotr Prins
This used to work: https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/INSTALL.org#set-locale But lately my locales have been giving me grief and I want to crack it once and for all. I am running Guix tools on a non-Guix distro. First, as per instructions of https://www.gnu.org/software/guix