l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> 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.)
Based on that observation, commit dd0a8ef forced the ‘patch-*’
procedures to treat
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> Mark H Weaver 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 availa
Mark H Weaver 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, whi
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
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Mark H Weaver 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 local
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:20:04PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 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’.
>From what I can see, any one
Mark H Weaver 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
