bug#33678: Locale problems

2018-12-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Guten Tag! :-) Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > Can we do something against the locale problems that keep showing up > when updating? > > Right now, after a half-finished update from guix master (half-finished > because > once any package build breaks, the entire update will stop), I cannot use

bug#33678: Locale problems

2018-12-08 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 10:35:51PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Can we do something against the locale problems that keep showing up > when updating? > > Right now, after a half-finished update from guix master (half-finished > because > once any package build breaks, the entire update wil

bug#33678: Locale problems

2018-12-08 Thread Marius Bakke
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > (Aha, updating just xterm fixes the problem). > > When locales don't work, I can't enter umlauts at all - they get replaced by a > "generic" character that isn't an umlaut, even when checked using a hexdump > tool. > > So not only couldn't I see the umlauts, I couldn

bug#33678: Locale problems

2018-12-08 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
(Aha, updating just xterm fixes the problem). When locales don't work, I can't enter umlauts at all - they get replaced by a "generic" character that isn't an umlaut, even when checked using a hexdump tool. So not only couldn't I see the umlauts, I couldn't type them blindly either. pgp1De7YUg0

bug#33678: Locale problems

2018-12-08 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Can we do something against the locale problems that keep showing up when updating? Right now, after a half-finished update from guix master (half-finished because once any package build breaks, the entire update will stop), I cannot use any Umlauts because "xterm -u8" stops working as it should: