Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > 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.
More details: Debian added "C.UTF-8" to their glibc package starting with 2.13-1, and that was picked up by Ubuntu. However, it is not in upstream glibc, and it appears that many other popular distros including Fedora and Arch don't have "C.UTF-8" either. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32296 Mark
