Phillip Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com> writes: > On 8/3/2014 6:53 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> parted-3.2 fails the same test when built on GNU Guix because the >> "C.UTF-8" locale is not available (see below). Changing >> t0251-gpt-unicode.sh to use "en_US.UTF-8" fixes the problem. > > What? It should not be possible to not have the C locale; it is the > native, untranslated locale and is the fallback locale used whenever > the chosen locale is missing or incomplete.
Upstream GNU libc includes a "C" locale which is limited to ASCII. However, it does not include a "C.UTF-8" locale. See this discussion: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902094 GNU Guix uses upstream GNU libc, so it doesn't have "C.UTF-8" either. Regards, Mark
